MA Arts & Cultural Management at King's College London

This Arts and Cultural Management master’s is designed to meet the needs of today’s arts and cultural managers and professionals across a variety of organisations. It emphasises creativity and criticality, teaching you a range of core competencies that will kick-start your career in arts and cultural management. Thanks to a distinctive mix of theoretical and practical elements, you’ll graduate as a reflective and agile practitioner, able to navigate a rapidly changing global context.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities  |  Department: Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries  |  Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

During this Arts & Cultural Management MA, you will engage with theoretical and practical aspects of arts and cultural management, such as audiences, access, finance, cultural policy, cultural production, cultural value, and leadership. You will learn about the vital importance of creativity within 21st-century cultural organisations, and discover the opportunities and challenges managers face in relation to rapidly changing cultural, social, political and technological contexts at both local and global scales. Your first required module will support you to develop as a reflective and agile practitioner, able to critically engage with key contexts, theories and debates that shape arts and cultural management today.

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