Details: Arts Leadership and Management, Master's

Master'sArts Leadership and Management

Wichita State’s Master of Arts in Arts Leadership and Management is a business and career-focused program for employment, or advancement, in arts executive positions. Students graduate with the applied experience needed to advance in this creative and fast-growing field. The program is completed entirely online.

Students advance their knowledge in two areas: arts leadership and arts management.

  • The leadership curriculum focuses on the techniques of adaptive leadership and its application to challenges facing the arts.
  • The management curriculum focuses on the daily management skills all arts executives need, such as strategic planning, entrepreneurship, fundraising and audience development.

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Making your graduate education affordable

In addition to scholarships and financial aid, more than 30 percent of full-time graduate students hold assistantships or departmental fellowships amounting to more than $4 million each year.

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Admission to the program

For admission into the Master of Arts in Arts Leadership and Management program, you must:

  • Have a minimum 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) on all previously completed undergraduate and graduate coursework.
  • Be admitted to the WSU Graduate School

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Admission requirements

Curriculum

To complete the Master of Arts in Arts Leadership and Management degree, you’ll take 30 credit hours, including:

  • 18 credit hours of core coursework covering entrepreneurial thinking, arts marketing and management, leadership and more.
  • Nine credit hours of electives.
  • Three credit hours of final project.
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Careers

Arts leadership and management graduates pursue executive positions at  a variety of places, including: arts organizations, theater companies, museums, symphony orchestras and production companies.

Learn more about careers in this field