This is a fast-moving and exciting degree, designed to help you become enterprising and create opportunities in the new music business.
We cover all facets of music business to give you a taste of it all. You’ll learn how to run live events, develop and manage artists and audiences, conduct sophisticated promotional campaigns and launch your own music enterprises.
You’ll gain specialist knowledge in music law and copyright, artist management, marketing/PR and events production and management. Most of all, you’ll be supported to build your own professional network from day one.
Our media centre lets you access modern studios, media suites and performance and broadcast spaces. You’ll work closely with creative arts, media and tech students, managing collaborative and large-scale projects on music festival stages, in national campaigns and at a range of live events and enterprises.
The course is packed with opportunities for you to gain professional experience, including the option of a full placement year in the UK. Our professional network of staff and graduates is very well connected and proactive. We invite you to gain experience in all corners of the music industry, which you submit as practical coursework as you progress through your degree.
Music Business at University of Gloucestershire is highly practical and coursework-based. You’ll benefit from a mixture of workshops and practical sessions, lectures/seminars and industry work placements – with coursework making up 96% of your assessment.
You’ll also have the choice of whether to pursue a three-year degree with short work placement opportunities embedded, or to opt for four years and add a full year work placement between your second and final years of study.
96 – 120 UCAS tariff points, CCC – BBB at A levels, MMM – DDM at BTEC, or a Merit in your T-Level.
Entry to this course is by interview. Check out our Interview Guide to learn what to expect and help you prepare.
English Language or Literature and Maths Grade 4/C in GCSE (or equivalent) are normally required.
We welcome applications from mature students (aged 21 and over) and do not necessarily require the same academic qualifications as school leaving applicants, although some entry requirements may still apply for Professionally Accredited Courses. We accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas and make offers on an individual basis.
Please read the entry requirements for your country – and contact our admissions team if you have questions.
Here's an example of the types of modules you'll study (the contents and structure of the course are reviewed occasionally, but it is unlikely that there will be significant change).
Module information is not available for this programme.
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| Start date | Location | UCAS code |
Fee (UK) Fee per year |
Fee (international) Fee per year |
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| Sep 2025 | Park, Cheltenham | N291 | £9,535 | £17,425 |
| Sep 2026 | Park, Cheltenham | N291 | TBC | TBC |
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At UoG we create a climate for bravery and growth. We instil confidence in all our students, so you can graduate career-ready and meet your ambitions.
95% of our graduates are in work or further study*, but if you’re not in a job 6 months after graduating we’ll guarantee you 6 months of free support, followed by the offer of a paid internship to kickstart your career – plus we’ll commit to lifetime career coaching. Eligibility conditions apply.
*Graduate Outcomes Survey published 2024 and based on 2021/22 leavers
Discover our promisesTogether, our lecturers and our extensive history of successful and active graduates in industry are part of an extraordinary professional network you will connect with when you join our course.
We cover all the major labels and publishing companies, national and international media, streaming and distribution services and just about every festival and events company you can name.
Add to this the many of us who choose to work in the UK’s world-leading independent sector, to ensure our grass roots and community music scenes survive, innovate and flourish.
Graduates from our course go on to work as artist managers, live events professionals, digital marketing specialists, publishing and licensing executives and creative directors in companies such as Universal Music Group, Live Nation, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment UK, Kobalt, Glastonbury Festival, Ditto Music, CYOA, DMY Artists, Twitch, The Music Works and many more.
Work with producers and artists and use our leading-edge technologies to develop a broad range of skills ready for a career in music business.
Tom’s music has been broadcast on the BBC, ITV, Sky TV and Virgin and licensed to compilations and artists such as Fatboy Slim’s Live at Bondi Beach.’
He uses his experience and connections to bring you the latest in current industry practice. He uses his experience managing a record label to teach on label and rights management, music technology and more.
Tom Soper, Academic Course Leader for Music Business
Housed in our fully-equipped Media Centre you’ll have access to production and design labs, recording and edit-rooms, broadcast and screening theatres.
Explore and collaborate with creatives from across the spectrum. We offer the perfect environment to practice your craft and prepare you to graduate career-ready.
As part of your course you can gain valuable experience on an optional placement year.
Demi’s debut EP entered the iTunes Country Album chart at number one while still at university.
“Demi and I worked together during the Amsterdam tour and we were successful in getting two stations to play Demi’s music and promote her music. I also researched some open mic nights and had Demi invited to one where the house band liked her so much they got on stage to perform with her after she finished her solo set. The night was a total success!”
Gwenllian Thomas, Music Business student
Emilie graduated from the Music Business (MMM) course in 2019 and currently works as a marketing associate for Blokur, a music and tech start-up in London.
Emilie first heard about Blokur during a Music Cultures and Economies lecture and reached out to them to ask for a week of work experience with the company. She was invited to do so and having wished the week wouldn’t come to an end, later reached out again to Blokur after University to apply for an internship, as she felt she wanted to see where the amazing projects would lead to.
Emilie Peterson, Music Business student
Music Business graduate, Rebecca Rees, won UK Music’s Outstanding MAP Graduate Award 2021 while fellow School of Creatives graduate, Kane Peters, took the runner-up spot. Both were recognised for their innovative work around festival environmental sustainability which was adopted by Live Nation and used at UK pilot festivals over the summer.
Rebecca, who now works in the Digital Team at Polydor (Universal Music Group), said: “The lecturers at University of Gloucestershire have helped to distil a resilient curiosity in me that will stay with me throughout what I hope to be a compelling career in music.”
The Outstanding MAP Graduate Awards (OMGs) are given to the most dynamic, innovative and ground-breaking students to come through a Music Academic Partnership (MAP) institute.
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