Program Overview
Arts Administration at Simmons University combines art with business, communications, or marketing to prepare students for careers in the arts, design, and culture industries. Students gain practical experience through internships at renowned organizations like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and develop skills in areas such as marketing, communications, and financial management. The program offers a minor in Arts Administration and provides opportunities for students to connect with leaders in the field.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Arts Administration combines art with communications, marketing, or business studies to prepare students for a wide variety of rewarding careers in the world of arts, design, and culture. Arts and culture are big business—and growing all the time. They put these to work at internships in museums, galleries, performing arts organizations, design firms and art studios. This winning combination opens doors to exciting careers in places like Boston, New York, London, and Hong Kong. You can minor in Arts Administration at Simmons and additionally, some content in the current Arts Administration major will be transitioning to the new Humanities major in Fall 2024, pending approval. You'll meet leaders in the field throughout your studies so you can discover the areas that interest you most in this highly personalized program.
Careers:
Our students have recently found internship positions with world-class organizations like Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Ballet.
Other:
A minor in arts administration requires AADM143 Boston Arts in Action (4 credits) plus one other AADM course, two art history or two music history courses, and one course from the following: ACCT110 Financial Accounting (4 credits), BUS100 Introduction to Business and Management (4 credits), COMM122 Media Writing and Editing (4 credits), COMM186 Introduction to Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications (4 credits). Internships are a key component of the arts administration program. There are a myriad of opportunities to build your skills, résumé and mentoring relationships with arts organizations in Boston and beyond.
