Luxury Jewellery Management - MA
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The global luxury sector continues to grow, with increasing profits for both well established and new brands. The MA Luxury Jewellery Management course addresses the specific challenges and opportunities of the luxury jewellery industry and is the perfect choice for you if you see your future career with premium, high-end and luxury jewellery brands.
- Level Postgraduate Taught
- Study mode Full Time
- Location City Centre
- Award MA
- Start date September 2023
- Fees View course fees
- School School of Jewellery
- Faculty Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
Overview
The global luxury sector continues to grow, with increasing profits for both well established and new brands.
The MA Luxury Jewellery Management course addresses the specific challenges and opportunities of the luxury jewellery industry and is the perfect choice for you if you see your future career with premium, high-end and luxury jewellery brands.
What's covered in this course?
You will learn global business strategy and leadership supported by ethical, responsible and sustainable practices. In developing skills to adopt appropriate codes of conduct to improve global operations, you will learn how to promote intercultural communication to enhance business culture and preserve cultural heritage in the luxury jewellery industry. These emerging and significantly important skills are key for managers of luxury jewellery business all over the world.
You will investigate the DNA of brands; designing and creating marketing plans and effective campaigns, with regard to the multicultural aspects of the audience. You will integrate innovations of new technologies, such as additive manufacturing, to embrace the change, meanwhile preserving and enhancing the artisanship’s heritage of the luxury jewellery industry.
The course is global in its outlook and reflects business systems, standards and practices from around the world, drawing upon international case studies and fostering intercultural fluency amongst students. These aims will develop your confidence and ambitions to explore a breadth of careers within a global luxury jewellery industry. Where possible, your learning will be supported by an international field-trip, factory visits, exhibitions visits, guest speakers, live projects and simulated practice requiring actual problem solving.
MA Luxury Jewellery Management is based on the philosophy that management education should provide a thorough grounding in the disciplines related to the functional aspects of management, and the interaction with contextual forces that impact on organisations. This knowledge and understanding is then further contextualised to provide integrative strategic themes. The impact of globalisation on business in all disciplines is a coherent theme throughout the course.
Everything I have learned has been put to beneficial use in my work. After graduation, I took part in fieldwork in South America. This was an especially important experience for my future career. I would not have been able to do it if I had not studied on this course.
Keiko Oshima
Why Choose Us?
- Links to industry and regular contact with luxury sector professionals.
- Webinars with international guest speakers offer a unique opportunity for students to meet professionals with longstanding experience in the Luxury Jewellery sector.
- Supportive staff with many years of industry experience.
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Entry Requirements
You are required to meet one of the following options:
Essential Requirements
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An honours degree from a UK University (minimum 2:2) |
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A first degree from an overseas university (GPA 3.0 out of 4.0 or average 75 per cent or any other equivalence to the above UK qualification) |
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Successful passing a Pre-Master's course approved by Birmingham City University |
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Successful passing a Pre-Master's course at another UK university/institution with a minimum of 55 per cent average |
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A first degree from an overseas university (GPA 3.0 out of 4.0 or average 75 per cent or any other equivalence to the above UK qualification) |
Other qualifications will be considered on a case by case basis.
Please note that even if your application fully meets the entry criteria, you may be required to further demonstrate your suitability via an interview or submission of a course proposal before being offered a place.
Interviews may be conducted in your country of residence, over the telephone or by Skype.
Extra information for EU/International students
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IELTS 6.0 (5.5 in all components) or equivalent is required |
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No English certificate is required for applicants from countries that appear on our English exemption list. Please contact the International Office for this list. |
Fees & How to Apply
UK students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.
Award: MA
Starting: Sep 2023
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Full Time
- 1 year
- £11,500 in 2023/24
- Full Time
- 18 months (including Professional Placement - see below*)
- £12,650 in 2023/24
International students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.
Award: MA
Starting: Sep 2023
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Full Time
- 1 year
- £16,870 in 2023/24
- Full Time
- 18 months (including Professional Placement - see below*)
- £18,557 in 2023/24
Personal statement
You’ll need to submit a personal statement as part of your application for this course. This will need to highlight your passion for postgraduate study – and your chosen course – as well as your personal skills and experience, academic success, and any other factors that will support your application for further study.
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Course in Depth
Modules
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 180 credits):
The aim of this module is to introduce you to research skills and methods to allow you to craft your own research proposal, which will support and inform your major project module. You will choose your own area of interest relating to your specialism for research.
This module will introduce you to your specialist field, focusing on the key skills, issues and debates surrounding the creative industries and in your specialist field. Marketing and management theory will be put into the context of your specialism and relate to your growing awareness of the global nature of the creative industries.
This module will provide you with the elements of business planning as well as the ability to analyse the environment of a business and plan future directions based your findings. Analysis covers topics such as trends, competitors, market and industry influences. Planning-related areas include product and service development, sustainable innovation, finance and marketing. Overall, the module will equip you, as a future manager, with the tools you will need to make strategic and tactical business decisions to provide evidence-based direction to future employers.
Luxury Culture and Lifestyle
This module will introduce you to the concepts involved in ethics and sustainability within your wider industry. You will investigate and assess the cultural, social, ethical, and environmental impacts of the various activities that take place in the industry as a whole. From sourcing to marketing, you will gain insights that will enable you to address and evaluate the current and emerging ethical and sustainability issues facing every sector globally, as well as analysing possible solutions or developing new ones of your own.
The purpose of the module is to enable you to undertake a sustained, in-depth and theoretically informed research project exploring an area that is of personal interest to you. It is important that we can support you appropriately, so you will be guided towards choosing a research topic which is relevant to your discipline and in which your lecturers have expertise. The outcome may take the form of a written dissertation or a practical outcome with accompanying reflective, critical and contextual material. The main consideration when choosing your topic is that it must be relevant to your programme and you should consider the relevance of this topic to your future academic or professional development.
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Enhancing Employability Skills
Studies concentrate on the business of luxury jewellery and employability and key transferable skills are embedded within the programme ethos to maximise your capabilities and understanding of potential career opportunities.
You will practice working in groups to complete projects to build current knowledge of luxury jewellery. The importance of positive contribution to a team and close working relationships with colleagues is a key feature. The programme is structured to build on experiences and embrace real scenarios through live projects, simulated practice requiring actual problem solving. This aims to develop your confidence and ambitions to explore a breadth of careers opportunities within a global industry.
International
Birmingham City University is a vibrant and multicultural university in the heart of a modern and diverse city. We welcome many international students every year – there are currently students from more than 80 countries among our student community.
The University is conveniently placed, with Birmingham International Airport nearby and first-rate transport connections to London and the rest of the UK.
Our international pages contain a wealth of information for international students who are considering applying to study here, including:
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Facilities & Staff
Our Facilities
The School of Jewellery is located over three sites in the historic Jewellery Quarter, with many of our postgraduate courses taking place at St Paul’s.
Officially opened in November 2019 by the Lord Mayor, our St Paul’s building is a postgraduate jewellery design and research facility. The building also houses a specialist jewellery library, computer suite and seminar lab, and studio spaces.
Our staff
Michela Ferraro
Course Leader and Lecturer
Michela Ferraro has twice been awarded the Bronze Award for Jewellery Design for Direct Precious Metal 3D Printing by The Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council. A graduate of the European Institute for Design in Milan (IED) with over 30 years’ experience in the jewellery sector, she's worked both as a jewellery designer and in...
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