74 Media BA Degree Programs

Express yourself as only you can. From the stage to the written word, effective communication can move, entertain, or inform an audience.

How does what you see, hear, and scroll through every day shape the way you think about yourself and the world? Dive into how we preserve, interpret, and protect the stories of past societies. Understand how history shapes identity and influences today’s culture.

The BA (Hons) Creative Media Arts* is an innovative undergraduate programme that prepares students to work at the intersection of contemporary art, digital media and emerging technologies. Through a practical, interdisciplinary approach connected to industry, the programme equips you to create projects in video, photography, interactive media extended realities, sound, installation and hybrid narratives.

The program in BA in Communication and Media Science, with a Digital Media and Public Relations specialization at Pécs, prepares students for effective work in the fields of professional journalism (of traditional, electronic, and online kinds), and Public Relations, advertisement, and organizational communication. The program lays great emphasis on practical training in media production and the development of students’ soft skills (empathic and assertive communication, teamwork, flexibility, creativity) and digital self-management capabilities.

The Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies: Media and Culture program offers a modern and interdisciplinary education combining a standard journalism curriculum with courses in media studies, film studies, and marketing/public relations and a focus on media and culture. Graduates receive a globally recognized degree, accredited in the US and EU, and earn it in three years instead of four.

This critical and creative degree explores the ever-evolving landscape of communication and media in the digital age, combining theoretical insight with hands-on experience across film and television, journalism, marketing, advertising and mobile technologies.

The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Convergent Media and Communication Technology (BA-CMCT) Degree Programme provides students with a quality inter-disciplinary education that offers a unique blend of media theory and practice in association with communication technology, so as to nurture professional and versatile talents to confidently face challenges and opportunities in the age of rapidly developing digital media and communication industries.

Want to work on exciting, future-focused projects and prepare for a career in the creative or media production sector? If you have a foundation degree (or equivalent) in Media Skills, this top-up course will give you the advanced practical and communication skills you need to reach BA level in just one year.

The media & journalism major offers and requires a variety of foundational and skills courses to help prepare students to enter the “real world” of media. The blending of media law and media ethics with hands-on skills is inherent in the courses offered in this major. The television, radio, and digital media track is designed for students planning to work in television (broadcast, cable, satellite, digital, mobile) and/or radio (broadcast, satellite, digital).

This degree gives you a thorough understanding of both mass media and the workings of the PR industry. The media side of the degree gives you the practical skills you need to work confidently in a rapidly evolving field. The marketing and PR side allows you to explore a range of PR activities; develop your business skills; and build your knowledge of marketing practices, particularly around brand management and corporate communications.

Get your head in the game. Prepare to join the next generation of sports media professionals by building your skills in multimedia production, writing/storytelling, social media and sports communication. Rider’s B.A. in Sports Media is designed to help you acquire the diverse skills and competitive edge that sports media employers seek.

Discover the meaning of film and the message of media, on our joint honours course where the dynamic worlds of film and media meet. By studying film and media, you'll learn how these communicative forms influence us, how they can enrich our lives and how you – through creative practice and engagement with the industry – can shape them.

The Media & Technology Studies concentration is designed for students interested in the development and critical analysis of different forms of media and technologies as social, cultural, political and economic forces. Contemporary issues explored may include: technologies in the urban context, privacy and surveillance, media and mobility, data and society, digital identity, digital health & culture, media law, media policy, media ethics, and global media. Throughout these courses, students develop skills in critical engagement with media as well as some experiences of multimodal writing and production.

Visual art today is strongly interlinked with today’s society, a connection which is reinforced and deepened by social and other media. In Arts, Media and Society, a specialisation of our Art History bachelor's programme, you will explore this relationship and analyse how it reflects and impacts the issues of our time, while also learning practical and academic skills that are invaluable in the current job market.

Students develop employability and professionalism through their exploration of media and cultural industries and working lives. Students can also broaden their educational experience by studying Media Studies along with Arts subjects (such as languages, business, social sciences, computer science).

Media have a major impact not only on how we communicate with one another but also on how societies are organised: culturally, politically and economically. This academic programme, therefore, studies the informative and social function of media and conceives 'culture' in its anthropological definition: as the ideas, customs and social behaviour of particular (groups in) societies. You will acquire knowledge and a variety of theoretical perspectives on the way different media platforms are structured, how they operate and how they relate to each other; how media systems are underpinned politically and economically; and how patterns of media use and production and content develop and change.

Are you fascinated by films, music or theatre? Do you love to discuss what art is, how to interpret a particular movie, pop song and performance and to study the effects that media can have on our societies? Then Arts, Culture and Media should become your Bachelor's programme. In our Bachelor’s programme students acquire a deepened analytical, historical and theoretical understanding of (a) two art forms chosen from film, music, theatre/performance, visual arts or literature; and (b) specialized scholarly knowledge in one of two frameworks: ‘Arts, Policy and Cultural Entrepreneurship’ or ‘Analysis and Criticism.’ This broad multi- and interdisciplinary combination makes it unique.