About this course
This degree is delivered at our London Campus in Whitechapel.
Our BA Event Management degree in London helps you turn your passion for bringing people together into a fulfilling career.
You’ll gain comprehensive knowledge and practical skills in planning, organising, and executing various types of events. From music festivals to corporate events, comedy to sports matches, this degree will give you everything you need to succeed.
Become a master of organisation as you delve into the intricacies of event planning, logistics, and execution. Whether it’s coordinating with vendors, managing timelines, or troubleshooting on the fly, you’ll develop the skills needed to ensure every event runs seamlessly from start to finish.
You’ll forge lifelong connections with fellow students, industry professionals, and mentors. Through work placements, networking events, and hands-on projects, you’ll build a strong support system that will propel you to success in your career.
What you’ll study
You’ll work on a breadth of events; from music and comedy, theatre productions, to outdoor festivals, esports tournaments, community and corporate events. We work with the likes of Rough Trade, BBC, Just the Tonic, and artists and organisations from across the UK and wider.
You’ll learn and work alongside performers, engineers, producers, designers and events specialists in a creative and collaborative eco-system.
Live Event Practice
(40 Credit Points)
During this module students will undertake practice in design, planning and delivery of a range of live events. You'll work collaboratively with your peers and stakeholders to produce work across a range of small to medium scale events.
With NTU owning its own events venues, you'll be able to develop essential skills in planning events such as live music gigs, live streaming, corporate and community events.
Marketing and Promotion
(20 credit points)
Great marketing is the backbone to any successful event. Throughout this module, you'll study the underpinning theory and develop your understanding of marketing and promotion in live events.
You'll learn, explore and practice the necessary skills to carry out effective market research. Through theory and practice, you'll learn how to successfully market and promote an event, meeting the needs and expectations of the attendees and key stakeholders.
The Event Industry
(20 credit points)
The event industry is fast paced and ever changing. In this module you'll investigate current trends and practices, keeping up-to-date with all the happenings of the local, national, and global events industry.
You'll explore your own strengths and weaknesses and develop your educational and career opportunities through taught and self guided projects.
Event Business Administration
(40 credit points)
Proper planning leads to perfect performance! All event planners must be proficient and organised individuals.
In this module you'll learn and practice a range of important administrative, legal frameworks and planning skills that will assist in your personal development as an event manager and as an industry-wide practitioner.
Event Practice 2
(40 Credit Points)
This module will stretch and challenge what you studied in year 1. You'll develop your skills and knowledge in design, planning, delivery and management of live events to a higher level.
You'll study theory and carry out practice to a greater degree of complexity and responsibility. In doing so, delivering a wider more diverse range of events, each with their own unique and often complex needs.
Future You
(20 credit points)
You are the key to your own success! In this module you'll investigate and develop your professional identity in terms of attributes, beliefs, values, motives, and experiences. You will develop professional integrity and a career identity.
This module encourages you to carry out research into employability and entrepreneurship, and you will analyse current industry practices, job roles and technical skills required in order to gain a thorough understanding of the events sector.
Throughout and during the assessment process you will actively partake in transformative practice, effective review and evaluation of yourself.
Event Research and Development
(40 credit points)
Throughout this module you will focus on the research and development of events. You will experiment with event designs and progress your understanding of event success. In doing so, you will further expand your skills in event planning through more advanced techniques and processes to influence future event designs.
Emerging and Cultural Events
(20 credit points)
This module will expand your experiences into the international and cultural event sector. You will carry out case studies and investigate the diversity in design and different nuances in delivery of such events. Part of this will involve visiting and experiencing events first hand.
Throughout the module you will reference the work with local and global sustainability in mind. You will also examine emerging event markets through research and theory led projects.
Developing the Practitioner
(20 Credit Points)
The aim of this module is for you to examine the range and variety of creative working methodologies in order to develop your role as an event practitioner. Through research and theory, you'll gain a highly developed conceptual understanding of contemporary live event practice.
You will attend a series of practical workshops and seminars, the purpose of which will be to expand and challenge pre-existing ideas and perspectives. You will be offered or negotiate a client brief. The work will evolve collaboratively to produce an original and imaginative event or series of events.
At specific points during the process you will be expected to present your evolving concept with the justification of theoretical research, which will inform the assessment procedure.
Live Event Investigation
(40 credit points)
In this module you will complete investigative research in your chosen event sector topic. The aim of this is to enhance your abilities in research led practice.
To establish yourself as a leading practitioner you need to have the ability to present research and associated data and analysis to stakeholder and industry professionals. Throughout this module you will be introduced to theoretical and practical concepts to achieve this.
Your Major Project
(60 credit points)
This is your chance to shine and make your mark on the event industry. In this module you will individually conceptualise, design and deliver an event or events of your choosing. You'll complete every aspect of the event; from planning and promotion, right through to delivery and analyse.
You'll work independently and through effective teamwork and collaborations to achieve your highest level of work on the degree program and set you up for your future career.
We regularly review and update our course content based on student and employer feedback, ensuring that all of our courses remain current and relevant. This may result in changes to module content or module availability in future years.
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How you're taught
This course incorporates a wide range of teaching methods including:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Reflection
- Tutoring
- Portfolio
- Peer learning.
The project-based learning and group activities form important elements of your learning, developing your ability to work in a team and enhancing your employability.
Work experience
As NTU has its own live events spaces, along with several other creative businesses, you'll be presented with countless opportunities to gain real-world experience. You'll also get the chance to work at outdoor events, like Splendour Festival in Nottingham. Attracting approximately 30,000 visitors, it's a great event to gain valuable experience.
Showcase
You will be given the opportunity to exhibit your work during your time at NTU to members of the creative industries.
Careers and employability
Your time at Nottingham School of Art & Design doesn’t have to stop once you finish your undergraduate course. Choose to continue your studies on our postgraduate degrees that can help you further develop your skills and obtain the experience you need to get a head start in your career. Browse our postgraduate degrees.
You’ll leave NTU with a long list of contacts and the skills, knowledge and experience to enter the global events industry. You will have the skills to work in small, medium and large scale event design and delivery, independently or in employment.
Whether as a freelance or contracted event worker you will be able to provide support in administrative operations and provide assistance to professional teams.
You’ll be capable of working in a range of event-related roles, such as production manager, event officer, infrastructure manager, marketing officer, assistant event manager, and events coordinator to mention a few.
You will be equipped to apply your skills in networking, communication, administration and management across the wider events and entertainment industry, providing you with ample employment pathways.
YouFirst – working with our Employability Team
Studying a degree at a popular university has many benefits, none more so than having access to a large employability team.
Our friendly, experienced careers consultants will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice you won't find in a book or on the internet. You can benefit from this at any time during your studies and up to three years after completing your course.
Campus and facilities
Whether you’re a songwriter, performer, producer or someone who wants to get into the live events industry, you’ll study and learn in the heart of a world-class venue – Metronome
By day, it’s an incredible place to study music performance, live events and audio technology. By night, Metronome transforms into a live events venue, hosting sell-out music gigs, comedy nights, theatre productions, esports tournaments, spoken word – the list goes on!
For our students, we can offer unrivalled facilities which include:
- 600 capacity live music venue
- 10 rehearsal spaces
- 4 recording studios
- Mastering, Atmos and post-production studio
- Live events production workspace.
Entry requirements
UK students
- Standard offer: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications
- Contextual offer: 104 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications
To find out what qualifications have tariff points, please use our tariff calculator.
Additional requirements for UK students
There are no additional requirements for this course.
Contextual offers
If you don’t quite meet our entry requirements, we might be able to make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and your individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer, and we get data from UCAS to help make these decisions. We do this because we believe everyone with the potential to succeed at NTU should have the opportunity to do so, no matter what barriers you may face.
Meeting our entry requirements
Hundreds of qualifications in the UK have UCAS Tariff points attached to specific grades, including A-levels, BTECs, T Levels and many more. You can use your grades and points from up to four different qualifications to meet our criteria. Enter your predicted or achieved grades into our Tariff calculator to find out how many points your qualifications are worth.
Other qualifications and experience
NTU welcomes applications from students with non-standard qualifications and learning backgrounds, either for year one entry or for advanced standing beyond the start of a course into year 2 or beyond.
We consider study and/or credit achieved from a similar course at another institution (otherwise known as credit transfer), vocational and professional qualifications, and broader work or life experience.
Our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy outlines the process and options available for this route. If you wish to apply via Recognition of Prior Learning, please contact the central Admissions and Enquiries Team who will be able to support you through the process.
Getting in touch
If you need more help or information, get in touch through our enquiry form.
International students
Academic entry requirements: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications. We accept equivalent qualifications from all over the world. Please check your international entry requirements by country.
English language requirements: See our English language requirements page for requirements for your subject and information on alternative tests and Pre-sessional English.
Additional requirements for international students
If you need help achieving the academic entry requirements, we offer a Foundation preparation course for this degree. The course is offered through our partner Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC) based on our City campus.
English language requirements
View our English language requirements for all courses, including alternative English language tests and country qualifications accepted by the University.
If you need help achieving the language requirements, we offer a Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes course on our City campus which is an intensive preparation course for academic study at NTU.
Other qualifications and experience
If you have the right level of qualifications, you may be able to start your Bachelors degree at NTU in year 2 or year 3. This is called ‘advanced standing’ entry and is decided on a case-by case basis after our assessment of your qualifications and experience.
You can view our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy which outlines the process and options available, such as recognising experiential learning and credit transfer.
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