For those of you who are wanting to studying Music Business here at Buckinghamshire New University, this blog is full of insights into the types of content that you’ll be learning during your time here.*

Throughout your three years studying Music Business you will learn a lot across the modules. While I can’t share everything in this blog, I can provide some insights into my favourite parts from each year.

*Please note all modules are subject to change, please check the course page for the latest module information.

Year One - It’s not all Rock’n’Roll

From day one you’re thrown straight into the course and given the resources and help to allow you to plan your very own event. This module sees that you work with the event, festival, and venue management students, organising and planning a winter wonderland type event on campus. I loved this module because it gave us hands on experience, and it doesn’t matter if you want to organise live events in the future or not, it provided us as students an interactive way to get to know each other and learn skills that you can’t learn from a textbook. This module also allows for a different learning style and a break from other modules which are more academic.

Year Two - Music Business Project

In my second year at BNU, we were given a project where we had to design our own business relating to music. I loved this module because it meant that we could put our creative knowledge together in our project groups and create an awesome business plan. It has been known in the past that students have physically set up these business ideas once they graduate, so all this knowledge is so useful in the future no matter where your degree takes you. I had so much fun with this module as it wasn’t focused on one individual topic.

Year Three - Social Media Marketing

My two previous favourite modules have both been group based, and I know that that isn’t for everyone. Do not worry, you have a good split of group work modules and individual modules. Social Media Marketing was such a great module to learn about because you get to dive deep into the technical ways that all your favourite social media’s work. Social media is something that we all use every day, and this module was great fun to learn how businesses use their own social media to enhance their business, but also how we can use our social media and strategies to make the most out of the platforms.

While these are only some insights into three of my favourite modules within my time here at BNU, I have loved learning about every different aspect of the music industry and the modules that you learn on the Music Business degree. My top tips for you as students, is to attend as many events as you can which are organised or advertised by the music business course leader. These events (either online or in person) allow for you to create network connections from people with all different types of music business experience.

My advice for any student is to create a LinkedIn account and ensure that you make these connections online as well as in person, it’s a great way to know what your peers are doing in their careers and ensuring that you stay up to date with any work experience or jobs that may be available while you’re studying.