BA in Event Management

Course Overview

The BA in Event Management is a UK Level 6 honours degree running three years full-time, with part-time and accelerated routes available inside the LSCAHM Hospitality Management department. The programme is aligned with Association of Event Organisers (AEO) competencies, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) UK and Ireland guidance and Institute of Hospitality frameworks, and includes a structured year-two placement with a UK event operator, venue or agency.

By graduation you can lead the planning cycle of a live event from brief to debrief, own a budget, negotiate with venues and suppliers, run on-site production, and close with a final-year capstone or dissertation suitable for event coordinator, project manager and account manager shortlists across the UK live events sector.

Assessment blends live event briefs, production portfolios, on-site delivery reports and a final-year dissertation or capstone. Placement is co-managed by the LSCAHM careers service alongside your named tutor.

Key Features

• UK Level 6 honours award aligned with AEO and MPI UK and Ireland benchmarks.
• Year-two placement across conferences, festivals, weddings and corporate event agencies.
• Modules across event operations, sponsorship, safety, and experience design.
• Final-year capstone or dissertation supervised by practising event directors.
• Central London teaching bringing venues, suppliers and organisers into every module.
• Institute of Hospitality-aligned service and guest-experience content.
• LSCAHM careers service linked to UK event recruiter cycles.

The three-year structure blends taught seminars, live event delivery with London venues, a year-two industry placement and a final-year capstone or dissertation supervised by a practising event director.

What You Will Learn

• Plan a live event end to end from client brief to post-event evaluation.
• Build event budgets, cashflow schedules and reconciliation reports.
• Design guest journeys, run-of-show documents and production schedules.
• Manage venue selection, contracting and supplier negotiation.
• Apply UK event safety, licensing, crowd management and safeguarding frameworks.
• Build sponsorship, activation and commercial partnership proposals.
• Lead an on-site event team through set-up, live delivery and derig.
• Communicate outcomes to clients, sponsors and stakeholder boards.

Applied learning runs alongside taught theory, and the LSCAHM careers service opens introductions to conference venues, festival organisers, wedding planners and corporate event agencies throughout each academic year.

Who This Course Is For

• School leavers targeting a graduate career in events.
• Working event assistants and coordinators seeking a UK honours degree with placement.
• Advanced or Higher Diploma holders progressing to full honours in event management.
• International applicants seeking a London-based honours route into live events.
• Hospitality staff moving from banqueting or F&B into full event delivery.

Applications are welcomed from working banqueting and hotel event teams looking to formalise on-the-job practice into a full UK honours degree, and from international candidates targeting a career with a London-based event agency.

Career Pathways

• Event Manager
• Wedding Planner
• Conference and Exhibition Coordinator
• Sponsorship Manager
• Venue Event Manager
• Corporate Events Executive
• Festival Operations Manager
• Hospitality Marketing Manager

The LSCAHM careers service runs at least one industry-careers day each academic year connecting undergraduates with UK event agencies, venue groups and destination management companies, and refreshes curriculum against AEO and MPI UK and Ireland guidance annually.

Event Management at Level 6 also covers festival production, corporate incentive travel programmes, exhibition build cycles and hybrid streaming production. Students who complete their placement in a specialist agency often take the opportunity into full-time event coordinator or account manager roles on graduation.

Entry Requirements

• A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
• GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
• IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
• Two academic references and a personal statement covering your interest in event delivery.
• International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSCAHM admissions.

Why Study at LSCAHM

LSCAHM is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts with named programme-tutor support. The school reads events alongside hospitality, tourism, culinary arts and food business, which is exactly the lens a live-event manager needs when a single conference is also a hotel booking, a catering brief, a delegate journey and a sponsor activation.

Central London places conference centres, luxury hotel groups, event agencies, the Institute of Hospitality and AEO within a short tube ride of every classroom, and kitchen practicals and live service shifts run through every year.

Every intake, on-campus or remote, joins the same weekly seminar structure with named programme-tutor support, and LSCAHM refreshes the events curriculum annually against Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, AEO and MPI UK and Ireland guidance.

Apply for BA in Event Management

Applications for the BA in Event Management are open now across on-campus, online and distance learning cohorts. Apply for the LSCAHM Bachelor's programme with industry placement included and admissions responds within one working day. International applicants receive full visa, accommodation and English-language support from LSCAHM admissions, and instalment plans and international scholarships are assessed at application review. Enrol Now.