Bournemouth University Masters Degrees in Communication & Media Studies

Our industry-accredited MA transforms the classroom into the newsroom providing you with skills required to cover news stories for any media platform. Read more

Receive industry-standard training in state-of-the-art facilities and turn your ideas into reality. This course provides practical and theoretical opportunities for you to develop your narrative, technical and collaborative skills as an editor. Read more

You’ll have many opportunities for practical production across different platforms and genres in both factual and fictional filmmaking while enhancing your skills and technical understanding of film, television and transmedia production. Read more

Whether you plan to manage the next generation of film and TV programmes, shape a career in development or production, run your own company, or effect social… Read more

This course will help you develop key intellectual and practical skills to meet and exceed current industry practices and expectations. Read more

The first UK university to offer an MA in Sound Design, providing a blend of practical and theoretical learning to develop the creative, technical and collaborative skills you need to work professionally in the film, TV, games and VR industries. Read more

Develop a highly employable skill set applicable to a wide variety of communication and media careers, whilst expanding your professional ability to engage with theoretical concepts and display critical understanding and analysis. Read more

Develop an advanced understanding of the issues and debates surrounding political communication, focusing on areas such as diplomacy, campaigning, reporting and media effects contextualised within the 21st Century communication and media environment. Read more

You’ll develop creative writing across a variety of forms, focusing on transmedia storytelling and skills to independently publish your work as a publisher; learning skills in editing, PR and marketing, design, production, and budgeting. Read more

Develop insights into the latest techniques of marketing communications research and practice. You'll be equipped with knowledge and skills allowing you to meet the ever-changing industry challenges while influencing ethical and sustainable marketing. Read more

​A Master’s by Research (MRes) course allows you to embark upon a research degree by undertaking a research project at Master's level which will be assessed… Read more

From law, computer animation and media production to history, politics, english, communication and journalism, our Faculty of Media & Communication offers many opportunities for research across a wide range of specialisms. Read more

This online part-time course supports educational professionals to conduct doctoral research into their own professional practice in education. Read more

As screen-based media play a more central role in our lives, this course nurtures an advanced understanding of them, combining the critical skills needed to change the media industries with innovative, hands-on engagement with their inner workings. Read more

Learn to understand and manage the entire production process, from development and planning, to working on location and overseeing creative post-production work. Read more