Graduate Diploma in Creative Business
Develop the entrepreneurial, strategic, and commercial skills to launch or advance your career in the creative industries. This NZQA Level 7 Graduate Diploma prepares you to found, grow, and lead creative businesses.
NZ$8,208
inc GST
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Core skills this course teaches
Develop business, entrepreneurial, and strategic skills
Gain the knowledge to establish and manage a successful creative business, including understanding the wider creative economy and your position within it.
Financial management for creative ventures
Construct financial models, manage revenue streams, and articulate the value of creative projects to inform decision-making in funding and investment.
About This Course
The Graduate Diploma in Creative Business at SAE New Zealand is designed for graduates or professionals in creative fields seeking to develop robust business, entrepreneurial, and management skills. Students learn how creative businesses are built, funded, branded, and led, with an emphasis on financial acumen, project and people management, strategic growth, marketing, and intellectual property in a creative context. The programme prepares graduates to launch their own ventures or take leadership roles in the dynamic creative sector.
Course Content
- Creating a personal brand
- Creative entrepreneurship
- Project management
- Marketing and promotion
- Financial Foundations and funding strategy
- Growth strategies for creative enterprises
- Navigating creative ownership & leadership
- Intellectual property and legal frameworks
- Culturally appropriate practices (including Tikanga Māori)
2027 Creative Business Fees are to be released in Sep/Oct 2026
Entry Requirements
Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a creative industries or creative technologies field; or equivalent professional experience (usually 5+ years). Be at least 18 years of age at the time of programme commencement.
Build towards these roles
Creative PractitionerCreative ProfessionalCreative FreelancerCreative EntrepreneurCreative ExecutiveBusiness OwnerProject ManagerProducerExecutive ProducerStartup FounderMarketing Manager
SAE New Zealand is an Auckland-based creative media school with over 40 years of history developing working professionals in audio, music production, screen, songwriting, and creative business. Their courses are hands-on and studio-based, taught by industry practitioners in purpose-built facilities. SAE is part of a worldwide network spanning campuses across four continents; the qualification you earn here carries weight far beyond New Zealand.
