Bolz Center for Arts Administration

The Bolz Center for Arts Administration is one of North America's oldest graduate business degrees in arts and cultural management, and continues to set the standard for preparing business leaders for the field. The two-year intensive MBA degree program balances professional practice with high-level business thinking. Extensive networking -- through our national guest speaker series, extensive alumni engagement, and close interaction with MBA classmates -- is also an essential program element.

Throughout their studies, Arts Administration students work as they learn and learn as they work. All accepted students serve as part-time, paid project assistants with campus or local arts organizations, gaining real-world project management experience while supporting their studies through our exceptional financial support package.

To foster and advance its dynamic curriculum, the Bolz Center also engages in research and leadership projects at the national scale. Focusing on issues of cultural management, leadership and organizational development, communications technology, policy, and an emerging emphasis on systems and ecological thinking, the Center has built an international network of innovative leaders that enhances our insights on management training, and positions our graduates to achieve their career and personal goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the nation's leading research universities, ranking second among public universities and third among all universities for research expenditures. The School of Business is ranked among the best in business education, with an innovative emphasis on specialized MBA degrees inspired, in part, by the Bolz Center's success.

An early catchphrase of the Arts Administration program remains true to our mission today: "The arts must survive as a business to thrive as art." For those passionate about exploring that balance, this MBA program offers an ideal opportunity.