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MAM Three-Semester Program (Pittsburgh)

Three-Semester Track Requirements

  • Begin the program in the fall semester (August).
  • Complete a total of 168 units with a cumulative QPA of 3.0.
  • Undertake an internship in the summer between the second and third semester.
  • Complete the core curriculum.
  • Complete Systems Synthesis, a group capstone project, during your final semester.

MAM Core Courses

You won't acquire the skills for your arts management career in a business school, where the focus is on managing in the corporate world. And you certainly won't get management skills in an arts school, where the focus is on the arts.

But you will develop these skills in a top-tier program that integrates both of these worlds through Heinz College and the College of Fine Arts.

The core curriculum for MAM—reviewed, refined and validated by some of the most incredibly innovative and passionate professionals in the field—provides the key foundation skills you need to become an effective leader.

Below are the core courses you'll need to complete the degree.

College of Fine Arts Courses

  • Creative Enterprises: Systems and Structures
  • Human Resource Management in Creative Enterprises
  • Contemporary Marketing Principles
  • Internet Technology Planning and Strategies for Creative Enterprises
  • Database Theory and Practice for Creative Enterprises
  • Exhibitions Management (and) Museum Operations (or) Performing Arts Management
  • Arts Marketing and Public Relations
  • Fund Raising Fundamentals for Arts Managers
  • Grants, Sponsorships and Private Gifts: Strategies and Practices
  • Law and the Arts
  • Strategic Planning for Creative Enterprises 

Heinz College Courses

  • Economic Analysis
  • Statistics for Management
  • Organizational Management : Creative Enterprises
  • Financial Analysis
  • Managing in a Multi-Cultural Society
  • Professional Speaking
  • Professional Writing

Course Exemptions

If you have a strong background in any of the required courses, you can receive an exemption either by passing an exemption exam during your orientation program or through successful completion of comparable coursework during your undergraduate work. Exempting a course doesn't reduce the required number of courses you must complete. However, you can add more elective courses to expand your knowledge base.

  • Three-semester track requirements. In order to qualify for the three-semester MAM track, applicants must meet at least one of the following criteria prior to enrolling in the program:
    • Minimum of three years of relevant professional work experience.
    • Completed a term of service as a Peace Corps volunteer.
    • Completed the Coro Fellows program.

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Alumnus Spotlight

Brad CarlinBrad Carlin, MAM 2006
Managing Director
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Austin, TX

"Being a successful arts manager is about finding balance. The nexus of art and business can be a very fine point and without proper balance it is easy to fall in one direction or the other. Years later, after working in the field, I am most grateful for the training I received  from IMCE and the MAM program.

The program at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College helped make me aware of, and embrace, the delicate balance between art and business and the forces that can pull you in either direction. The tools I use everyday in managing a theater company, continually working to find and maintain that balance, can all be attributed to the courses, faculty, and classmates I encountered during my time in Pittsburgh."