26 Journalism, Media, and Mass Communication Masters Degree Programs in Sweden

This Master’s degree will help you understand and work with various communication processes in environmental and natural resource management.

This one-year Master’s program provides a global perspective on journalism, investigating the role of journalism in different media systems and socio-cultural contexts, giving you the knowledge and skills necessary for work in an international setting. You will also examine changes to the global media and their implications for professional journalism.

Master of Arts in Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. Are you interested in literature, film, comics, art, music, fashion, or journalism? This two-year program offers a broad media-oriented perspective on narration, meaning-making, learning, and truthfulness in art and communication.

Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication, and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change. This is a half-time study programme, combining courses on culture, communication, and development and integrating them with practical fieldwork. It explores the use of communication - both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change - within the context of globalisation.

The Sustainable Communication (Two Years) is a Media and Communication master’s programme designed for students who want to deepen their understanding of the significant role of media and communication in global sustainability. In a time where anthropogenic climate change is threatening the life conditions on which we all depend, and where inequality, wars and armed conflicts remain global problems, the need for global sustainability becomes urgent.

The MSc Communication Systems focuses on wired and wireless network infrastructure, services and applications, and explores how the growth of the internet creates new business ideas and ventures. Graduates develop secure and sustainable systems and services for the next generation.

International Master’s programme in Media, Communication and Cultural Analysis provides comprehensive knowledge of the theory and practice of the modern media, as well as problem solving, advanced analysis and project design abilities for use within the media sector, thus preparing you for a varied range of professional careers.

The two-year master's programme in Media and Communication Studies gives you advanced knowledge of digital media through practical approaches in the field. You will work creatively and in an explorative manner with different types of media while learning to evaluate them from a critical perspective.

The one-year master's programme in Media and Communication Studies offers advanced understanding of digital media from multiple perspectives. The programme combines theoretical and practical learning methods. You will learn to evaluate media from a critical perspective, while gaining practical skills useful for the creative industries.

Master of Arts in Media, Democracy, and Human Rights. Are you interested in analyzing the media’s role in society? Do you want to influence media development in line with democratic principles and human rights? This master’s program enables you to become an active agent in media development in an international context.

The master's programme in Interactive Media Technology provides skills and knowledge in designing, developing and evaluating interactive products and media. Students can explore topics related to human-computer interaction, user experience, and sonic and visual media. We encourage students to work on projects that matter to them and respond to societal challenges. Graduates are experts in industry and academia, and some start their own companies.

New forms of digital media technologies emerge every day, affecting all aspects of our lives as well as changing how organisations and society operate, often in rapid and unexpected ways. From constantly changing forms of mobile communications to virtual and augmented reality, technologies offer new ways of interacting with each other, managing our wellbeing, studying, working and organizing our societies. Creating and managing this complex and rapidly changing media environment requires the ability to see beyond the hype and make informed and timely decisions. This calls for an advanced understanding of the complex interplay between people, organizational processes and digital technologies. In this master’s program you — the future professionals and researchers — will learn to navigate the complexities of this new media environment, and to lead the strategic development of future media technologies across various industries where digitalization is happening and digital media is a key element of success.

This two-year Master's programme provides systematic, in-depth knowledge and understanding of core lines of thought and analysis in political science. It offers training in social sciences methodology and aims to give you tools so that can develop your analytical and problem-solving abilities. The programme has a particular focus on democracy and governance.

The master’s programme in information science: digital environments offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to information, providing a unique, holistic approach to information in digital environments. This programme is suitable for students with a Bachelor’s degree in library and information science, information studies, information architecture, archival science, digital humanities, media studies, informatics, systems science or related fields.

This is a two-year program at the second level with English as its main field of study. You can choose to specialize in linguistics or literature, or a combination of these.