Bachelor of Arts in Creative Industries Management

Formerly known as: Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management

Program Length: 9 Trimesters

Careers: Creative Entrepreneur; Cultural Attaché; Media Producer; Artistic Director; Arts Administrator; Design Manager; Marketing and Public Relations Executive; Curator; Exhibitions, Festivals, and Events Manager; Digital Manager

The Bachelor of Arts in Creative Industries Management (ABCIM) is an interdisciplinary program designed to cultivate future-ready professionals who will lead, innovate, and collaborate across the diverse fields of cultural and creative economy. Anchored in a learner-centered and outcomes-based framework, the program aligns with international standards and responds to the evolving demands of the arts, culture, and creative industry sectors in both local and global contexts.

Students in the program learn the systems and technologies of institutions and businesses that run on creativity, art, and design. They are positioned to create conditions, spaces, and interfaces in which art and creativity can happen and be sustained. The curriculum fosters the development of critical thinking, ethical responsibility, and cross-sector collaboration—empowering graduates to navigate and shape creative ecosystems with agility and purpose, guided by inclusion and innovation.

The Creative Industries Management Program of DLS-CSB is a proud member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE). AAAE is a global network representing the world’s leading graduate and undergraduate arts administration programs with degrees in arts leadership, management, entrepreneurship, cultural policy, and creative industries, among others. Together with AAAE, the program advances an inclusive, equitable, and resilient environment for the arts, culture, and creative industries through various collaborations and initiatives, including the 2021 Arts Management Undergraduate Conference in the Philippines, as convened by the program.

How do you make art and creativity happen?

This course is for you if you want to ensure that the different forms of art continue to be seen to nurture the human soul. You will learn to:



  • generate innovative ideas and best practices in leadership, management, and entrepreneurship to recognize co-creation opportunities in the ecosystem;
  • apply creative industries management practices to create and evaluate policies and projects in managing the arts, culture, and creativity that contribute to social change and economic development;
  • utilize technologies and systems to facilitate creative expressions; and
  • display ethical values in the conduct of business.

Arts, creativity and innovation as a way of life

The School of Arts, Culture, and Performance merges the relationship between our identity and our social and academic transactions within the structure of the college; the appellation fluidly describing our implicit role as meaning-makers across local and international contexts engaging in various gestures in the arts, culture, and creative industry sectors, a shared vision with the Benildean community for an extraordinary education for diversely-gifted learners.

Primed to be in their Prime

SACP continues to implement a student-centered and practice-based approach to learning and instruction. Students are constantly immersed in diverse environments through varied experiences deduced from interdisciplinary thinking and practice, professional excellence, local and international linkages and collaborative gestures, and the application of artistic processes in diverse fields.

Every nook and corner tells a story

The Design + Arts Campus, a 14-storey academic complex, is one big playground for creative minds and a venue that stimulates students to think out of the box, shift perspectives, and innovate ideas.