Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Global Arts Management (Top-up)

The BA (Hons) Global Arts Management Top-up completes an honours degree in one year for diploma holders from arts, media, events or business backgrounds, with final-level modules spanning international cultural management, arts marketing and audiences, cultural policy in global perspective, and a substantial project. The export records the fullest intake flexibility in the top-up family — September and January windows across three cycles — at the standard £16,800 arts-faculty fee.

Teaching draws on the same staff and city infrastructure as the flagship Arts and Festivals Management degree: Leicester’s year-round festival calendar, its unusually diverse cultural communities, and venue partnerships that give even one-year students a route to real production credits. The global framing examines how cultural work travels — touring, international funding, diaspora audiences — material that lands directly for students intending careers bridging the UK and South Asian cultural economies.

Admission breadth is this course’s quiet feature: the accepted diploma backgrounds span arts practice, media, events and business, making it a convergence point for students whose earlier study was creative but whose ambitions turned managerial — a profile common among performing-arts diploma holders across South Asia. Fee parity with the arts faculty’s standard £16,800 keeps the one-year conversion cost predictable.

Be straightforward about sector economics: arts management pays modestly (£19,000–£23,000 at entry) and hires on demonstrated delivery, so the single year must be spent accumulating credits in the city’s cultural scene alongside study. The completed honours award qualifies for the Graduate Route’s 18-month post-2026 allowance, dependants cannot accompany taught-route students, and the master’s articulation into DMU’s cultural events provision offers a natural extension for those building toward larger roles.