24 Media and Communication Degree Programs in Sweden

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.

The Graphic Design and Web Development programme suits those who wish to combine graphic design, programming and web design with knowledge in both marketing communication and project management. In this program, you will get the skills to design and encode interactive web applications for different devices and platforms with a clear focus on the user experience. You will also get theoretical and practical knowledge for designing graphic material for both printed and digital media.

Leadership and digital transformation shape the organisational landscape across industries. This program provides innovative insights into how leadership, digitalisation, and work-integrated learning intersect to drive organisational change. Deeply integrated within the University West's academic framework, the program emphasises applied learning in the context of digitalised organisations.

The Media and Entrepreneurship Programme combines the subjects of media and communication studies, media production and business administration with the joint subject entrepreneurship. The aim of the programme is partly to build a theoretical understanding of communication models and media development, and partly to educate the students in entrepreneurial and sustainable leadership or design.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Do you want to use visual communication to make a difference in the world? Then this is the right degree for you. The program combines creative practices, visual art, and graphic design with knowledge of sustainability to prepare you for a profession as a visual communicator with a diverse set of graphic and conceptual tools.

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.