Media, Music & Sound Production
UAL Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise
Campus Milton Road Campus
Qualification SCQF Level 6
Study mode Full time
Start date
Aug 2025
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Course overview
The UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise has been designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to develop your career as an entrepreneur.
This qualification will provide you with an opportunity to cultivate your employability by developing your creative enterprise skills, and expanding your industry contact base while developing your start-up projects and professional practice.
The qualification has been developed in collaboration with representatives from industry, universities, further education colleges and employers to ensure it provides you with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to prepare you for employment, including self-employment and/or support a role in the workplace in the chosen industry.
This qualification is suitable for students who have an interest in starting up their own projects or companies and wish to explore and extend their creative practice via a full-time or part-time immersive learning experience. The qualification can be used as a starting point for students who have identified a specific project that they wish to work on or to enable them to explore the basis of entrepreneurial activity by developing essential business and management skills to identify and respond to business opportunities in their chosen industry.
The qualification is also appropriate for students wishing to continue their education through applied learning, by locating that learning within a professional context in which they can work alongside industry experts to gain first-hand industry experience.
The objectives of this qualification are to give students the opportunity to:
- Develop and demonstrate enterprise and entrepreneurial skills necessary to their chosen industry
- Develop and define their enterprise ambitions and creative ideas
- Build up their professional practice and independently initiate their creative projects
- Achieve a nationally recognised qualification What you will learn
- Digital Marketing
- Promotions
- Networking
- Budgets and forecasts
- Creating a viable business model
- Project management
- One day on campus.
- one day online and led by supervision slots to help realise your projects.
- One day of study is required per week using structured online resources.
The course covers the skills you need including:
Taught by professionals with extensive industry experience, Edinburgh College’s music business team will deliver classes to guide you through the process, all within the state-of-the-art facilities at Milton Road Campus.
Teaching will be based around weekly classes consisting of one day in college and one day with flexible online learning which would potentially allow those with busy working schedules to still study on the course.
How the course is assessed
Assessed through the realisation of real or controlled enterprise projects in the creative industries, and assessed using authentic methods relating to that field (i.e a business idea being assessed through the completion or business plan, pitch and product/service; or an event being assessed through a plan and the event itself).
Number of days per week
Entry requirements
- One Higher or equivalent (ideally in English) although previous professional experience within the Creative Industries will also be taken into account.
Information on Tests / Auditions / Interview Requirements
- Once your application is submitted a member of the course team will be in touch to discuss it with you.
English Proficiency Requirements
IELTS 5.5Progression and Articulation Routes
- Creative industry BA courses at Edinburgh College, for example, the BA (Hons) degree in Music Business.
Study Options
| Campus | Study mode | Start date |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Road Campus | Full time | 25/08/25 |
