Business Studies & Arts Management

I'm a bit late replying, but anyway! I've just finished my final exams for this course and loved it! The structure is a little different to when I started but I can give you an overview.

First off careers, graduates have gone into many kinds of jobs, but mostly they would be arts and cultural sector. Some have gone on to do masters in accounting, law, PR, marketing, event management. Personally, my interests like in music, dance and theatre.

Secondly, and this is important - the course is not event management. A few people have been disappointed with this, but it's the truth. You will get the chance to host events, but they will be arts based (exhibitions, gigs, film festivals)

1st year, for me anyway, was two full days (9-5 or so) and three half days, 2nd year we had one day off, one full day, the rest half, 3rd year was pretty full on, I'll get to that, 4th year was one day off, two full, two half. But don't judge courses on the hours! That's the least of your worries!

The course is heavily arts and culture based, and to thoroughly enjoy the course I think you would need to at least have in interest in learning about these areas. There's a subject break down here http://www.iadt.ie/en/ProspectiveStudents/SchoolsCourses/SchoolofBusinessHumanities/BAHonoursinBusinessStudiesandArtsManagement/

You've got a mix of fun history type stuff like music, art and theatre, then the more academic and arts subjects like cultural policy, event management, strategic arts management, cultural project management. Some of the latter there are pretty heavy but really interesting and good chances to do assignments on stuff you personally want to learn about. Finally you have the pure business ends, but often they'll incorporate the arts/culture - marketing, law, HR, accounting, media technology, research methods.

In third year you do a five month work placement, again it's usually arts based, but not always. I worked in a music venue, while some classmates worked in places like Jameson International Film Festival, St Patrick's Festival, Hot Press magazine, various PR companies.

Final year is very busy, including a case study on a topic of your choice. The theme can also be incorporated to other subjects. I did mine on classical ballet, and it has helped me make connections in the industry.

The course allows a lot of opportunities to get out and make contact with people for your assignments, there's loads of site visits to galleries and theatres, in 4th year there's a trip, this year was Prague. All I can say is that it is what it is - Business and Arts. It's an enjoyable course, pretty broad, with opportunity for employment or further study.

I think you should be able to organise a tour of the campus if you call the college. They should be able to sort something out! Check out the Students Union too, I'm sure they'd love to help http://iadtsu.ie/

I have no idea! I had it as my first choice and got it in the first round of offers. There's about 40 places in the course, so obviously there will be a little more competition than courses with higher numbers.