| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
| 2024-09-23 | - |
Program Overview
We will equip you with a wide range of key media management skills to thrive in a complex and evolving media landscape and support you to become a leader in business, culture, and entrepreneurship.
Program Outline
COURSE OVERVIEW
Our dynamic Masters course in Media Management offers a combination of practical management skills and theoretical knowledge to prepare you for an exciting career in one of the fastest expanding sectors in the UK and beyond.
As a new postgraduate provision, the course prepares you to become a professional, who can navigate the rapidly evolving media world, at national and international levels. Our approach combines cutting-edge theories with contemporary case studies of real-life situations from across the globe.
We will equip you with a wide range of key media management skills to thrive in a complex and evolving media landscape and support you to become a leader in business, culture, and entrepreneurship.
You will acquire critical thinking, analysis, research, planning and management techniques which can be used in multiple sectors and contexts. In developing a deep understanding of historical debates and present issues, you will be in a strong position to face any challenge your future may bring in the creative industries and beyond.
Together we will survey prevailing global concerns regarding identity, equality, big data, politics and the economy framed by the production, distribution, and consumption of contemporary media forms.
We will support and extend this by hands-on teaching, where you will be able to develop your practical media and management competencies and to create a rich portfolio of work and contacts. You will leave the course with strong transferable skills, management skills and the media expertise needed to excel in the creative industries. As such, this programme will enhance your employability and expand the horizons of your professional career paths.
Over the years, we have built strong links with local employers, such as independent film producers, radio stations and newspapers. These, along with our state-of-the-art multimedia facilities, will help you build a combination of practical and transferable skills, creative thinking and applied academic knowledge so that you stand out in a competitive job market.
In Semester 1 you study: Introduction to Media Management, Research Methods for Media Managers and Media Project Design and Development.
In Semester 2, you study: Freelancing and Entrepreneurship, Digital Media: Marketing, Design and Practice.
In your final semester, you choose a Dissertation or Practical Project in Media Management in an area of your own interest agreed, with your tutor.
This programme is aimed at both professionals and arts graduates. Its unique combination of technical, management and conceptual skills will help you forge a successful career in the digital media industries.
Careers
Our MA in Media Management also paves the way to a broad range of employment opportunities, including working in the creative industries, marketing and communications, corporate industry, company management, the third sector and NGOs, and political communications. The programme enhances key flexible skills will support a route into a wide range of careers in communications, HR business, education, management, and public service.
Pre-approved for a Masters
If you study a Bachelor Honours degrees with us, you will be pre-approved to start a Masters degree at Winchester. To be eligible, you will need to apply by the end of March in the final year of your degree and meet the entry requirements of your chosen Masters degree.