History of Art/Business and Management

History of art and business and management might seem to inhabit very different intellectual worlds, but their combination opens up genuinely valuable perspectives on how cultural value is created, circulated, and exchanged. Art history develops your ability to analyse visual objects carefully, placing paintings, sculptures, buildings, and designed works within the social, economic, and ideological conditions of their making. Business and management provides the frameworks to understand how organisations operate, how markets function, and how strategy is developed and implemented.

Together, they produce a graduate who can move between cultural and commercial thinking with confidence.

At the University of Glasgow, this four-year joint honours programme gives you depth in both disciplines. You will develop the interpretive and analytical skills of art history alongside the quantitative, strategic, and organisational knowledge that management study demands. Glasgow's location, its connections to major museum and gallery collections, and its position as a commercial centre make it a genuinely rich environment for both strands of the degree.

A year abroad is built into the programme, broadening your experience and giving you exposure to artistic and business cultures beyond the UK.

This combination is particularly well suited to careers in the cultural and creative economy, including auction houses, galleries, museums, arts administration, cultural policy, and the commercial art market. The management component also opens doors to roles in marketing, consultancy, finance, and general business, while the art history training is valued in journalism, publishing, heritage, and education. Many graduates go on to postgraduate study in art history, arts management, business, or related fields, deepening their expertise in one direction or working across both.