The purpose of the Music Business Certificate at the University of Georgia is to develop business leaders for the music industry.
The curriculum is designed around fundamental skills and specialized competencies, drawing together diverse and distinct areas of music and business content. Students learn from key industry experts, including artists and managers, while gaining hands-on experience from coordinating and marketing events, producing content, managing artists, and operating labels. An internship supplements courses in accounting, business fundamentals, emerging issues in the music business, entertainment law, music history, new media, and others.
Students are prepared for recruitment to full-time positions in various sectors of the music industry and have gone on to jobs at Live Nation, Thirty Tigers, ATO Records, The Georgia Theatre, and Warner Music Group.