Which Arts Management specialisation suits a Bachelor of Arts graduate with 12 months of work experience?

Twelve months of experience is not a disadvantage here. Most postgraduate Arts Management programmes are designed for people coming directly from a humanities degree, and your year of professional exposure gives you workplace context that a pure fresh graduate would not have.

Let What You Did in Your 12 Months Narrow the Choice

• General office, coordination, or client-facing work: Arts and Cultural Management is the broadest, safest specialisation.
• Media, content, or communications work: Creative Industries Management uses that experience more directly.
• Marketing or social media work: Arts Marketing and Audience Development is a closer match.
• Museums, heritage, or archives interest: Museum and Heritage Management is worth a direct look.

Arts and Cultural Management vs Creative Industries Management

Arts and Cultural Management keeps you flexible across museums, galleries, arts councils, and festivals, and builds skills in business planning, fundraising, and stakeholder relations that transfer across the whole cultural sector. Creative Industries Management leans harder into film, music, publishing, and media businesses, so it suits you more if your 12 months were spent in a media or entertainment-adjacent role rather than a traditional arts organisation.

My Advice

I would not pick a specialisation purely by prestige of the title. Write down what you actually enjoyed doing during your 12 months, whether that was programming events, managing budgets, or handling communications, and let that decide between Arts and Cultural Management and the more specific alternatives above. If you are still unsure, Arts and Cultural Management is the safer default since it keeps the most doors open.