MA Media Management

Applicants should normally possess a good honours degree (2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. If the degree is in an unrelated subject, applicants need to demonstrate appropriate industry knowledge and experience in their application documentation.

Candidates with professional/industrial experience, and/or other relevant training and experience may be admitted with lower qualifications.

Non-traditional entry students are welcome: applicants without formal qualifications but professional/industrial experience may be admitted on the basis of interview and submission of supporting material. Each application will be considered on its merits and the final decision will be made by the course director.

We recognise a breadth of qualifications, speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.

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Funding opportunities including scholarships available

From the outset, this course is designed to prepare you for a broad range of positions in media businesses, creative and cultural industries by providing you with the opportunity to develop a set of business skills, your digital fluency in new media technologies and your creative skills.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a broad range of professional skills, including how to engage with ideas, stakeholders, external bodies and other professionals in a flexible manner, as well as event and project management.
• Give vision, strategy and leadership to a creative team.
• Think critically, intellectually and reflexively about the full range of factors that impinge upon professional and creative activities within media and digital media, including seeing across disciplinary boundaries and adapt your thinking responsively to the context.
• Demonstrate knowledge of a body of cutting-edge theoretical frameworks, concepts, ideas and business analytical tools and state of the art media technologies that help make sense of the complexity of contemporary global media businesses and practices.
• Apply organisational, planning and presentation skills through the appropriate use of management methods and tools.

This course is part of the Media Cluster in the School of Media and Performing Arts. Our students have gone on to work in: digital music services in The Netherlands; as research posts at the Five College Women’s Centre, Massachusetts USA; in PR companies in Saudi Arabia; in government organisations and broadcasters in Africa; and as producers in TV stations in China. Our graduates also regularly go on to set up their own companies across the globe.

• Media Businesses, Creative and Cultural Industries – 20 credits
• Research Methods – 20 credits
• Entrepreneurial Practice – 10 credits
• Collaborative Social Challenge Project – 10 credits
• Media Consumers and Audiences – 20 credits
• Final Major Project (Research and Planning) – 30 credits
• Collaborative Community Project – 10 credits
• Future Media – 20 credits
• Final Major Project (Production and Sharing) – 30 credits
• Collaborative Enterprise Project – 10 credits

With professional experience option

This opportunity² enables you to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing an opportunity, will extend the duration of your master’s to either 16, 20 or 24 months. The professional experience provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability.