The Arts Extension Service offers three online Certificates in Arts Management: the Core, Professional, and Leadership Certificates. Our Arts Management Certificates are 100% online and have no residency requirement, saving you travel, time, money, and making it possible for you to take our classes anywhere that you have internet access.
- Core Certificate: Earned by successfully completing four of our online courses.
- Professional Certificate: Earned by successfully completing eight of our online courses.
- Leadership Certificate: An advanced, four-course online certificate designed for arts managers with a minimum of three years of varied experience in the arts management field.
Our online certificates have two important options that meet your unique needs.
The AES Advantage
- Unlike some other programs, there is no additional fee to receive your certificate.
- Small class sizes give you the opportunity to work closely with faculty and peers.
- Our faculty are nationally-recognized as leaders in their respective fields, each with 10+ years of experience. Many have written chapters in our textbook Fundamentals of Arts Management, 6th edition!
- Only one textbook is required for the majority of classes – the Fundamentals of Arts Management, 6th edition.
- As part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, you will have access to both a world-class online library and the National Arts Policy Archive and Library which hosts 50 years of documents from the NEA, AES, NASAA, and TAAC.
