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The Arts Management B.A. Program

The Arts Management B.A. Program is perfect for students who have a passion for the arts and want an arts-centered career. The curriculum combines:

  • a broad-based education in the liberal arts and sciences
  • management and financial courses vital to leading and improving arts organizations
  • theory and practice in the visual or performing arts
  • two kinds of experiential learning that deepen and sharpen skills and theory: internships in arts organizations and the capstone experience of a year-long independent project

This program is designed for students seeking employment in the arts industries as professional arts managers and managerial staff. Its goal is to produce arts administration professionals who possess a practitioner’s commitment to and knowledge of the arts, combined with the financial and management skills needed in business.

The sequence of courses in this major will impart the knowledge and skills that are required to manage performing and visual arts organizations, such as opera companies, galleries and museums, dance companies, exhibitions and venues, concerts, festivals, community art centers, record companies, and other areas of the entertainment and arts industries.


  • Arts and cultural organizations are key energizers of the society we value.
  • The arts have a powerful impact on our economy.
  • In the U.S., more people annually attend cultural institutions and events than all of the nation's sporting events combined.

Discover two distinguished cultural institutions at Purchase College:

Neuberger Museum of Art

The Performing Arts Center