Music and Entertainment Business
The music and entertainment business is quickly shifting from a corporate, top-down model to one that favors the multi-talented entrepreneur. If you are going to succeed in this challenging field, you will need industry-specific business savvy, technical skills and a solid professional network. IPR's associate in Media Arts: Music and Entertainment Business program provides that and more.
Not your traditional business degree
At IPR, music business faculty members are entertainment industry pros. The 2-year degree program applies general business principles to the unique relationships between artists, venues, recording companies, publishers and other industry players. Learn how to handle issues like these:
- Shopping a project
- Copyright challenges in a digital environment
- Evaluating a contract
- Digital and traditional marketing
- Event coordination
- Artist management
- Developing a business proposal and pursuing investor funding
- Developing a press release campaign
You will also learn the technical skills you need to build a marketing website, produce a flyer or otherwise promote a client. Check out details and a specific list of course requirements for music and entertainment business:
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Your future in music business
Call toll-free: 1-866-477-4840 or contact admissions with questions about the associate in entertainment business program, or to arrange a tour of our Minneapolis college campus. We will be happy to help.
Notes. 1 – Tuition, fees and textbook costs are current as of October 10, 2011 and represent estimated costs for students completing the program “on-time” based on current tuition levels which are subject to change; 2 – “Median Federal Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from federal student loans for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 3 – “Median Private Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from private loan sources for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 4 – “Median Institutional Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from institutional financing plans for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 6 – Job placement rate is calculated according the standards of the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC – www.accsc.org) for the 2011 reporting year and includes a cohort of 31 students who began the program between January and December of 2008. Of these students, 25 graduated within 150% of normal time, 22 were available for employment and 18 (82%) of those available were employed in-field; 7 – O*Net is the U.S. Department of Labor’s database for job titles and information related to employment in specific career fields. The occupations listed in the table above result from entering the program’s CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) Code into the O*Net Crosswalk at http://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/. CIP codes reflect broad categories of educational programs rather than the specific focus of a program offered at a particular institution. As a result, the occupations listed above represent potential careers that may be obtained by graduates of this program and may include occupations in which program graduates do not work. Please speak to an admissions representative to learn more about specific career opportunities for graduates of this program. Values of “n/a” appear for programs that had fewer than 10 graduates in 2010-2011. http://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/.