Entrepreneurship and Popular Music, BA (Hons)

The BA (Hons) in Entrepreneurship and Popular Music fosters creative and performance skills through an exploration of music's aesthetic, analytical, sociological, and historical aspects. This is complemented by a cutting-edge entrepreneurship curriculum that is vocationally focused, challenging, and attuned to the complexities of modern business.Students prepare for dynamic global careers by building agility, innovation, resilience, self-learning, and teamwork. At the Markeaton Street site, access state-of-the-art facilities including recording studios, rehearsal spaces, music technology labs, and post-production rooms with professional-grade software matching UK and international standards. The new Business School serves as a hub for Derby's business community, enabling networking with startups, small businesses, and local leaders. Learning involves lectures, composition, tutorials, workshops, group discussions, seminars with expert speakers, case studies, real-business interactions, one-on-one tutorials, work projects, and self-directed study. Opportunities include diverse instruments, a classic Neve console, surround-sound research labs with advanced speaker arrays, and JAMES-accredited courses ensuring industry relevance. Graduates gain intellectual, technical, and business skills for roles in performance, production, education, promotion, engineering, and entrepreneurship, with support for launching ventures through incubation and mentoring.