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The Master of Entertainment Industry Management (MEIM) program complements the creative and aesthetic skills you've honed as an undergraduate with a set of management skills to prepare you for a leadership career in the entertainment industry. MEIM offers a rigorous management education based on theory and practice to help accelerate your career path within the film and television industries.
What distinguishes the MEIM program is its unique blend of Carnegie Mellon's renowned rigorous, high quality academic training with on-site, in the trenches, hands-on training within the film and television industry in Los Angeles. Students spend the first year of study in Pittsburgh, taking core management coursework to build the fundamental skills and ways of thinking that they'll need to succeed. During the second year, the students are in Los Angeles, expanding and enriching their management skills, theories and techniques through specialized coursework taught by some of the entertainment industry's leading professionals. In addition, MEIM students will work side-by-side with industry professionals throughout the year in full-time internships in the management offices of studios, production companies or related firms.
Master of Entertainment Industry Management Highlights:
Valuable Career Connections: MEIM Students Attend Sundance Film Festival
"Sundance is amazing! Everywhere you go, you meet big players -- you sit next to an HBO editor at the movie theatre, you're in line for a drink behind the director of photography for Robert Redford's last film," said 2009 MEIM alumnus Justin Leader.
“It's the absolute best way to make connections and the worst way to get a good night’s sleep."
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Engaging Discussions: MEIM Hosts Panel on the Future of the Television Industry
The MEIM program recently convened a prestigious panel of industry professionals for a discussion of television's future. Nearly 300 alumni, faculty members, producers, attorneys, agents, studio and network executives, actors, recruiters and MEIM board members attended The Future Business Model of Television, held at Warner Bros. Studios on March 10.
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Daniel T. Green, Interim Program Director
Dan Martin, Program Chair
Brenda Peyser, Associate Dean
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MEIM Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Baker
Jonathan Baker teaches feature film economics, finance, marketing and distribution for the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program's Los Angeles campus and for the GIOCA graduate program at the University of Bologna, Italy.