Master of Event Management

This postgraduate degree builds on ICMS's undergraduate strength in event management, aimed at career-changers or industry professionals wanting a formal management qualification behind existing events experience rather than school leavers starting from scratch. Like ICMS's other masters, it combines dense coursework with two Work Integrated Learning subjects totalling 600 hours, and students already working in relevant event roles can apply for recognition of prior learning against that placement requirement rather than repeating hours they've effectively already logged professionally.

Content goes deeper into strategic event portfolio management, major event bidding and delivery, and event risk and crisis management than the undergraduate degree's more operational focus, appropriate for a cohort that in many cases already knows how to run an event and is here to learn how to manage an events business or a major event program at a strategic level. ICMS's Sydney location again does real work here, with access to major event case studies (Vivid Sydney, New Year's Eve on the Harbour, international sporting fixtures) that a program elsewhere would have to teach at a further remove.

Graduates typically move into senior event management roles, festival and major event directorships, or corporate event portfolio management within larger organisations.