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Behind every arts and culture organization is a leader who connects artists with audiences and manages the organization’s daily operations. In the Arts Management bachelor’s degree program at Columbia College Chicago, you’ll learn how to manage and lead creative organizations. You’ll take management courses on topics such as cultural policy, law for the creative industries, and talent management. In practicum courses, you’ll collaborate with your classmates to plan and manage live projects, which include events, exhibitions, and performances. You’ll meet arts management professionals and visit Chicago’s cultural institutions and businesses as part of your course work. And you’ll have opportunities to join teams at festivals, galleries, and startups throughout the city.

In Columbia College Chicago’s Design Management bachelor’s degree program, you’ll learn the business of design. Thousands of creative agencies work with clients to design inventive products, software, marketing, and more. This work requires research, strategy, and leadership. As a Design Management major, you’ll learn how to work with clients. You’ll take management courses tailored to the creative industries, and you’ll learn how various business models in the design industry are structured for freelancers, small companies, and large firms.

Behind every successful venture in the arts and entertainment industries is a team of savvy marketers. In the Marketing bachelor’s degree program at Columbia College Chicago, you’ll learn how to harness the power of data, digital media, events, and storytelling to market products, services, and ideas. You’ll learn from Chicago-based marketing professionals and cross-train in a variety of communication disciplines.

In the Music Business bachelor’s degree program, you’ll learn about the professional teams behind your favorite bands, concerts, festivals, albums, and mixtapes. You’ll learn how music is monetized, licensed, and distributed, and you’ll sign, release, and market emerging artists on our student-run record label.

The BFA in Television Writing and Business addresses the growing need to prepare students for launching and managing entertainment projects while maintaining creative control of their productions. Today's studios, networks, and independent production companies seek creatives with high-level writing skills, sound business acumen, and entrepreneurial thinking. This program fulfills that need while also teaching students how to create their own opportunities for employment and engagement with the television and digital media industry.

Fashion is an art and an industry. To succeed in it, you’ll need cutting-edge business skills and an appreciation for style. In Columbia College Chicago's fashion bachelor's degree program, we’ll prepare you to enter the rapidly changing world of fashion. Our core classes will help you think critically about fashion and imagine how style can solve problems and contribute to culture. You’ll gain real-life experience outside the classroom by working with retailers and wholesale showrooms. You’ll build on this experience by honing professional skills in marketing, technology, analytics, and design. As a graduate, you’ll join a network of alumni who work as technical designers, merchandisers, buyers, pattern makers, marketers, stylists, and digital media specialists.

Columbia’s Fashion Design BFA program will train students to develop a design practice with a strong focus on design context, emphasizing an understanding of the culture, history, and theory of fashion as well as the crucial business savviness needed to make their work market-ready. As a Fashion Design student, you’ll further explore the processes of conceptualizing, creating, and delivering a thesis collection that sits at the intersection of craft and innovation. You’ll be cultivating your creative voice while honing the digital expertise, research acumen, and critical thinking skills required to be an innovative leader in a rapidly evolving global industry, bringing change-making thinking to the problems it faces.