Course options
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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
29-SEP-25
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Duration
1 Year
Course summary
Good journalism is essential to a functioning society. This course is designed to give you all the valuable skills and knowledge needed to work in the diverse and fast-moving environment that is modern journalism and media. Our core units will give you a solid foundation in the principles and practice of good journalism, and youll learn how to cover stories for print, web, TV and radio, and how to adapt a story from one medium to another. Youll also have the option to graduate with a specialism in broadcast journalism if you choose to take the relevant broadcast journalism option units and produce a final project in broadcast journalism. Youll be taught by accomplished media professionals with backgrounds and connections in BBC TV and radio local, regional and national newspapers and online news, so you can be sure youre learning at the forefront of industry thinking and practice. And youll have the chance to develop your own industry connections through our placement opportunities, introducing you to the real working environment and enhancing your employability. Designed to meet the requirements of media employers in the UK and beyond, youll amass a full and varied portfolio to present to potential employers on graduation equipped to take on a leading role in a rapidly evolving global industry, with the confidence and knowledge to explore the potential of multi-platform news and features publishing.
Career prospects
On successful completion of the course, you will be ideally placed to pursue a career at the forefront of multimedia journalism as a multi-skilled reporter or presenter.
Our past students are now working at home and, in some cases, abroad as:
Reporters
Researchers
Feature writers
Arts editors
Music journalists
Business journalists
Broadcasters
Online writers and editors
Press officers
Social media managers
Modules
Tuition fees
- Hong Kong
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
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- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- England
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea DPR (North Korea)
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Northern Ireland
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Authority
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Republic of Ireland
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St Vincent
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- St. Lucia
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- UAE
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Wales
- Western Samoa
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
£ 22,000per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
Manchester Metropolitan University
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University League Table
56th
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Campus address
Manchester Metropolitan University, Ormond Building, Lower Ormond Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M15 6BX, United Kingdom
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
45th out of 91 4
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Entry standards
/ Max 206125 61%43rd
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10071.0 71%32nd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.02 76%60th