Advance your career in digital media with the University of Birmingham’s MA Digital Media & Global Communication. This online, flexible program equips you with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed for success in media, communications, and creative industries.

Become a skilled communicator ready to work for multinational companies on our industry-focussed programme.

Our Social Work MA degree will provide you with a practice-focussed and eye-opening learning experience. Learn from expert academics and gain first-hand experience from service users, carers and practitioners, and graduate prepared to start an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling career.

MA Cities, Sustainability, and Wellbeing addresses city major challenges and prepares you to make a difference. Through collaborative and interdisciplinary research and engagement, you will develop research skills and expertise across a diversity of urban, sustainability, and wellbeing challenges.

Develop expertise across History and Politics, two closely linked disciplines, and become equipped with the skills and knowledge to tackle complex ideas from multiple perspectives.

Develop the skills to succeed in the dynamic world of digital media. This programme will prepare you to engage critically with various media practices, paving the way for careers in related fields or further academic research.

Our MA Social Policy degree equips you to understand a rapidly changing world and promote social justice.

This exciting programme seeks to understand how policy is formulated within this evolving and dynamic context by drawing on the core concepts of policy analysis and theories of policy change.

Get ready to start your career in film and television with creative and analytical training in screen art and culture. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the screen industries and be equipped with key professional skills in critical analysis and content creation.

The main goal of the master's is to provide students with an advanced level of understanding of the conceptual debates about the role of religion in contemporary global politics at a time when religion plays more than ever a major role in the politics of nation-states and the development of the international system. The program addresses major themes around the role of religion in politics and international relations in the contemporary world and allows students to research the role of religion in society and politics.

Our new MA Law (Conversion) will be the new pathway into practice for non-law graduates who want to either progress onto our LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) or the SQE1 Preparation Course to qualify as a solicitor or the Bar Practice Course (BPC) to qualify as a barrister, from October 2021.

The course is a law conversion course aimed at graduates, which also incorporates preparation for the SQE1 assessment. The course is designed for non-law graduates who want to qualify as a solicitor and gain a legal qualification at the Master’s level. As an internationally recognized qualification, a Law Master’s is a great addition to your portfolio. With a strong level of support from the start, this course is a great introduction to law if you hold an undergraduate degree in another discipline.

This pathway is for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of the rational foundations of the Catholic worldview in order to be able to engage effectively with the intellectual challenges posed by the secular culture of our time. It is of particular relevance to all involved in preaching and teaching the faith in schools, colleges and parishes.

Our new MA Law (Conversion) will be the new pathway into practice for non-law graduates who want to either progress onto our LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) or the SQE1 Preparation Course to qualify as a solicitor or the Bar Practice Course (BPC) to qualify as a barrister, from October 2021.

This pathway is suitable for professional workers in pastoral ministries, in, for example, schools, colleges, social work and health. Because of its emphasis on the Christian vision of the human person and the implications of this vision for family, civic and social life and engagement with culture, this pathway is of particular relevance to educators with specific responsibilities for Citizenship within the curriculum.