BA (Hons) Event and Festival Management for the Creative Industries Bachelor's degree at LMA
BA (Hons) Event and Festival Management for the Creative Industries at LMA. You'll study core business and management principles alongside specialist knowledge in event and festival delivery within creative sectors.
About this course
Turn creativity into unforgettable experiences. This degree equips you to design, manage, and promote events across the creative industries, from music festivals to brand activations. You’ll explore planning, production, sponsorship, and audience engagement, while tackling real-world challenges in lo From the provider’s course page.
BA (Hons) Event and Festival Management for the Creative Industries is a Bachelor's degree (BA (Hons)) at LMA, based in Liverpool,London. It runs 3 years, studied full-time.
For the typical curriculum, specialisations, career paths and graduate earnings for Business & Management, see the sections below.
Curriculum & modules
Real modules published for this course, grouped only where the source gives a year, stage or level.
Level 4 4 modules
- Studying Event & Festival Management in the Creative Industries
Module details
Step behind the scenes of global events and festivals. Explore how they're built, run, and experienced, while uncovering the cultural forces that shape them. From live music to fashion weeks, this module builds your research skills and sets the stage for a career in creative event management.
- Project Management and Planning
Module details
Plan events that make an impact. You'll master budgeting, branding, and risk management while exploring immersive formats and sustainable practices. Learn how to pitch bold ideas, secure funding, and deliver standout experiences, ready to lead from concept to curtain call.
- Marketing & Communications in the Creative Industries
Module details
Create campaigns that connect. This hands-on module covers branding, digital strategy, and social media tailored to creative audiences. With real-world case studies, you'll learn how to craft messages that cut through the noise and promote performances, products, and ideas.
- The Live Event
Module details
Bring your event vision to life. From concept to delivery, you'll lead on branding, sponsorship, logistics, and team management. With a focus on entrepreneurship and real-world collaboration, this module gives you the tools to design and deliver unforgettable live experiences.
Level 5 4 modules
- Exploring Event & Festival Management in the Creative Industries
Module details
Explore the future of global events and festivals. You'll examine cultural impact, sustainability, and ethical challenges while analysing how festivals shape the creative industries. This module sharpens your critical thinking and equips you to navigate a fast-changing, globally connected events landscape.
- Engaging Audiences & Teams
Module details
Master the art of audience engagement and team leadership. You'll explore crowd behaviour, stakeholder dynamics, and venue operations while developing skills in volunteer coordination, safety, and strategic team building. This module builds your confidence to lead events that run smoothly, from backstage to front row.
- Innovation & Analytics
Module details
Lead with insight and creativity. This module explores emerging trends, data ethics, and the tools that power smart decision-making. You'll learn how to collect, analyse, and present data to optimise audience engagement and drive innovation in the fast-evolving events industry.
- Virtual & Hybrid Event Management
Module details
Design digital-first experiences that connect and inspire. You'll explore the rise of virtual and hybrid events, from immersive tech to global logistics. Learn how to engage audiences online, manage cross-cultural challenges, and deliver sustainable, future-facing events in an increasingly connected world.
Level 6 4 modules
- Industry Investigation
Module details
Explore a current issue shaping the creative industries through independent research. You'll choose your topic, analyse it critically, and present your findings in a format that suits your strengths. This module sharpens your research and communication skills, preparing you to tackle real-world challenges with insight and originality.
- The Creative Business Professional
Module details
Build a personal portfolio that showcases your creative identity, career goals, and professional strengths. You'll refine your communication, decision-making, and self-promotion skills, equipping you to step confidently into the creative industries with a clear sense of direction and purpose.
- International Events & Festivals
Module details
Step into the global spotlight. This module explores the challenges of managing international events, from logistics and legalities to cultural dynamics and sustainability. Through real-world case studies, you'll learn how major events drive impact and regeneration, preparing you to lead creative projects across borders.
- Major Event/Festival Management Project
Module details
Lead your own large-scale event or festival project. Whether tackling a real-world brief or a simulated challenge, you'll apply research-driven strategies to design, plan, and deliver a high-impact experience. This module builds your confidence, creativity, and leadership, readying you to stand out in the industry.
Source: provider course page. Modules can change; required/optional status, credits, descriptions and assessment are shown only when explicitly published.
Course in depth
What this course covers, who it suits and where it leads.
What you'll study
This degree equips you to design, manage and promote events across the creative industries, from music festivals to brand activations. You'll explore planning, production, sponsorship and audience engagement, while tackling real-world challenges in the sector. A course like this typically progresses from management and business foundations in Year 1, covering how organisations work, marketing principles and business economics, through operational and strategic modules in Year 2, such as supply chain management and strategy. Year 3 moves towards specialist options in areas such as entrepreneurship, international business, digital business, marketing or people and HR, culminating in a capstone project or consultancy brief that applies what you've learned to a real event or client challenge.
Who it's for
This course suits graduates interested in the creative industries who want to develop practical and strategic skills in event management. You'll benefit from combining business fundamentals with hands-on event expertise, preparing you for roles across festivals, conferences, exhibitions and cultural programming.
Careers & job market
Across Business & Management courses nationally, 87% of graduates are in work or further study within 15 months of graduating, with 60% in highly skilled roles or continuing their studies. National earnings data shows starting salaries of £24,000–£32,000 at 15 months post-graduation, rising to £26,350–£37,200 after five years.
University & format
This is a 3-year, full-time Bachelor's degree (BA Hons) taught in English at LMA, a university with campuses in Liverpool and London. The degree is recognised by a UK degree-awarding body, so your qualification is nationally recognised.
Applicant information
The next application dates for this course, followed by facts the provider publishes.
- 2027 entryCompleted applications can be submitted
Your application needs a reference before you can send it.
- 2026 entryFinal date for 2026 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2026 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
- 2027 entryEqual-consideration deadline
18:00 UK time for most undergraduate courses.
Show 5 later dates
- 2027 entryUCAS Extra opens
Applicants who used all five choices and hold no offer may be able to add another choice.
- 2027 entryLast day applications go directly to providers
Applications received after 18:00 UK time are entered into Clearing.
- 2027 entryClearing opens
Eligible applicants can see vacancies and release themselves into Clearing.
- 2027 entryFinal date for 2027 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2027 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
Provider-published requirement; check the linked course page before applying.
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Entry & how to get in
Entry & your chances
An honest read from the official entry data, plus your personal match.
Entry is set by the university and based on your offer. Use your predicted grades to see how you compare, then check the university's stated requirements.
How to apply
Undergraduate applications go through UCAS. Here’s what matters for this course, the right deadline, the grades to aim for, and the steps in order.
- 1Register on UCAS Hub
Create your UCAS application and add this course (code W830). One application covers up to five choices.
- 2Write your personal statement
A single statement covers all your choices, so keep it broad enough for similar courses while showing genuine interest in this subject.
- 3Submit by 13 January 2027, 18:00 UK time
UCAS equal-consideration deadline for most undergraduate courses. Source: UCAS 2027 dates.
- 4Reply to your offers
When decisions are in, pick a firm (first) choice and an insurance (back-up) choice with slightly lower grades.
- 5Results day & confirmation
On results day (mid-August) your place is confirmed if you meet the offer. Just missed? Talk to the university, or find a place through Clearing.
Fees & funding
What this course costs and how UK student finance covers it.
Tuition per year
Standard capped home fee at English providers (2026/27); Scotland, Wales & NI differ.
Check fees at LMA →For students who normally live in England
2026/27 Student Finance England figures. Maintenance support is means-tested and this two-point view is not an entitlement calculator. The course total uses its published length and home fee where both are available; a missing full-time fee uses the clearly labelled England-cap scenario, while part-time fees and unknown lengths are never guessed. Use the official calculator. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use separate systems: SAAS, Student Finance Wales, and Student Finance NI.
Starting on or after 1 January 2027?
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement is a separate system. A new learner’s tuition entitlement is currently stated as £39,160 (about 480 credits at 2026/27 fee levels), subject to prior study and eligibility. Check the official LLE guide.
Paying for it
- Tuition Fee Loan: can cover eligible tuition up to the applicable limit and is paid straight to the provider.
- Maintenance Loan: up to £10,830/yr away from home outside London (England, 2026/27), means-tested on household income.
- Repayment: 9% of income above £25,000, nothing below it; written off after 40 years.
- Earn alongside: most students work part-time in term, part-time roles on the StudySmarter job board.
England figures shown; Scotland, Wales & NI run their own schemes, check gov.uk.
Scholarships & bursaries you could qualify for
That does not mean no funding exists. Check the university directory for current amounts, eligibility and application dates.
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Careers & earnings
What Business & Management graduates actually earn, from real outcome data, 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
- 1Graduate / AnalystOn a scheme or first role · 0–2 yrs
- 2Specialist / ManagerOwning an area, marketing, finance, ops · 2–5 yrs
- 3Senior / Head ofLeading a function and a team · 5–10 yrs
- 4Director / FounderRunning a business unit or your own company · 10+ yrs
How pay grows: this course vs Business & Management nationally
National figures for Business & Management graduates, HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Work out your pay
Headline figures hide a lot. Calculate realistic take-home pay for this field by role, region and experience, then check your CV before you apply.
Job market & outlook
How Business & Management graduates fare in the labour market, and how AI is reshaping the work.
How AI is changing the work
AI doesn't replace the profession, it shifts it: routine tasks get automated, while judgement, working with people and using AI well become more valuable.
What AI takes off your plate
- Routine reporting and data pulls
- First-draft decks and copy
- Standard forecasts and reconciliations
- Scheduling and admin workflows
More human than ever
- Strategy and judgement under uncertainty
- Leading, negotiating and selling
- Sense-checking and owning what AI produces
- Relationships with clients and teams
The strongest graduates pair subject depth with the ability to use AI tools critically.
Roles & employers
Where Business & Management graduates typically go, indicative destinations from graduate career data. Each role links to live openings on the StudySmarter job board.
Roles graduates go into
Where they work
- Consultancies
- Corporate graduate schemes
- Retail & FMCG
- Startups & scale-ups
Jobs after this course
Current roles from the StudySmarter job board that suit Business & Management graduates.
Business Director, Marketing ScienceXcedeBusiness ManagerLGPS CentralBusiness Change ManagerIGA Talent SolutionsBusiness Case ManagerPeregrineBusiness DirectorMedialab GroupBusiness Rates SurveyorW TalentWho studies here and in this subject?
Provider- and UK subject-level context.
LMA
Business and management across the UK
HESA student record 2024/25. Counts are rounded.
Local crime-data context
A neutral snapshot around the published teaching location.
Around Liverpool
4,905 street-level reports returned within roughly one mile across 2026-04 to 2026-06.
Around London
3,138 street-level reports returned within roughly one mile across 2026-04 to 2026-06.
Police.uk street-level API. Approximate locations, not confined to campus. England, Wales and Northern Ireland; not Scotland.
Is Business & Management right for you?
Tick what applies to you and see how good a fit it is.
International students
What applying to LMA from outside the UK involves: fees, English, visa, funding and living costs.
Tuition fees
International tuition is set per course by LMA; international fees are typically £12,000–£30,000/year for classroom subjects and higher for lab/clinical ones. You’re not eligible for UK Tuition Fee or Maintenance Loans, so plan for fees plus living costs upfront.
English language
Most UK undergraduate courses ask for around IELTS 6.0–6.5 (no band below 5.5–6.0), or an accepted equivalent. If you’re just short, most universities run a pre-sessional English course that counts towards the requirement.
Student visa
You’ll usually need a Student visa (Student Route). After you accept an offer the university issues a CAS; you then show funds for fees plus about £1,023–£1,334/month living costs and pay the Immigration Health Surcharge for NHS access.
Scholarships & funding
Many universities offer international/global scholarships (often £2,000–£6,000/yr), check LMA’s funding pages.
Living costs
Budget roughly £1,100–£1,400/month outside London and £1,400–£1,800/month in London for rent, food and travel; the figure also matters for your visa.
Working while you study
A Student visa usually allows up to 20 hours/week in term time and full-time in holidays, useful alongside study, though not something to rely on for fees.
Visa rules and fees change. Always confirm the current requirements with LMA and gov.uk before you apply.
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