MSc Media Management
University of Stirling
Key Information
Campus location
Stirling, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
12 - 24 Months
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
The MSc Media Management provides a dynamic introduction to the skills needed to flourish in your chosen media career in a rapidly changing global media landscape. Using the specialist expertise developed in the Masters, you’ll help media organisations to capitalise on opportunities and to meet the challenges posed by unprecedented change and increased global competition in the sector.
The course offers you a unique opportunity to develop your theoretical and critical understanding of the digital, creative and media industries at the same time as honing your practical and analytical skills in a strongly industry-facing course.
You’ll explore advanced-level inter-disciplinary media and management-related studies led by highly qualified team from one of the UKs leading centres for digital media, film and communication studies as well as from the prestigious Stirling Management School. The course has extensive media industry links which are drawn upon in the delivery of industry guest lectures, team project work for live clients and the opportunity for fieldtrips, including a visit to the state-of-the-art broadcast facilities at BBC Pacific Quay, the recently opened V&A Dundee and tech incubator CodeBase Stirling.
Top reasons to study with us
#1 96% of our graduates were in employment or further study 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes 2020/21, HESA)
#2 2nd in Scotland, top 5 in the UK for Communication and Media (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)
#3 100% overall student satisfaction with MSc Media Management (Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2022)
Curriculum
Course details
The MSc Media Management consists of a taught course taking place over two 15-week semesters, followed by a dissertation. The taught course involves postgraduate modules offered by, or in collaboration with, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Stirling Management School. You’ll take two core modules and one elective module each semester, making for a total of six taught modules across the year.
Teaching
You'll be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. We also have guest speakers who are experienced practitioners from the media industry able to provide a strategic or practical insight into current management issues.