Music and Business Management (BA)

Please contact our enquiries team if you're not sure that you have the right experience or qualifications to get onto this course.

Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44(0)23 8059 5000

Your first year will give you a fundamental knowledge of music. Management modules introduce you to basic concepts in business management, methods, models and technologies. 

In management, your second year will extend your knowledge of business principles while your third year gives you a range of optional modules to choose from.

In music, your second and third years give you the chance to specialise in areas that are of interest to you. These might include:

• music history and cultural studies
• performance
• composition
• technology
• music therapy

In your third year you'll take on a major project too. This might be a piece of music, business dissertation, composition portfolio or a performance recital.

You can also broaden your experience throughout your degree by choosing:

• language modules
• a  minor subject

You do not need to choose your modules when you apply. Your academic tutor will help you customise your course.

Want more detail? See all the modules in the course.

The learning activities for this course include the following:

• lectures
• classes and tutorials
• coursework
• individual and group projects

Course time

How you'll spend your course time:

Course leader

Drew Crawford is the course leader.

This music and business management degree will help you pursue managerial roles in the industry. It could also provide an entry to graduate schemes or careers in accounting, finance or banking. Your degree can also be a good foundation for further study.

Our Excel Internship Programme can help you find a paid work placement during the Easter or summer vacation.

Previous graduates have gone on to roles including:

• performer
• music therapist
• manager in arts organisations
• composer
• creative marketer
• arts and culture manager

We are a top 20 UK university for employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022). Our Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise team will support you. This support includes:

• work experience schemes
• CV and interview skills and workshops
• networking events
• careers fairs attended by top employers
• a wealth of volunteering opportunities
• study abroad and summer school opportunities

We have a vibrant entrepreneurship culture and our dedicated start-up supporter, Futureworlds, is open to every student.

What your fees pay for

Music students will also need to pay for:

• maintaining and insuring instruments
• extra tuition or rehearsals
• hiring session musicians

Accommodation and living costs, such as travel and food, are not included in your tuition fees. There may also be extra costs for retake and professional exams.

Explore:

• accommodation costs
• living costs
• budgeting advice
• fees, charges, and expenses regulations 

If you're a UK or EU student and your household income is under £25,000 a year, you may be able to get a University of Southampton bursary to help with your living costs. Find out about bursaries and other funding we offer at Southampton.

If you're a care leaver or estranged from your parents, you may be able to get a specific bursary.

Get in touch for advice about student money matters.

You may be able to get a scholarship or grant to help fund your studies.

We award scholarships and grants for travel, academic excellence, or to students from under-represented backgrounds.

The Student Hub offers support and advice on money to students. You may be able to access our Student Support fund and other sources of financial support during your course.

Funding for EU and international students

Find out about funding you could get as an international student.

When you apply use:

• UCAS course code: W3N1
• UCAS institution code: S27

Apply for this course

You will be asked for an interview and audition, either remotely or in person. If you want to take performance modules you'll need to show you're proficient to grade 8 or equivalent, either by auditioning or sending a video.

We treat and select everyone in line with our Equality and Diversity Statement.

Please contact our enquiries team if you're not sure that you have the right experience or qualifications to get onto this course.

Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44(0)23 8059 5000