Global Media Industries

Program Overview

Global Media Industries MA

Key Information

• Delivery mode: In person
• Study mode: Full time, Part time
• Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
• Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent): UK 180/ ECTS 90
• Application status: Open
• Start date: September 2025

Course Description

This Global Media Industries MA will equip you with skills needed for a career in the media. You’ll enhance your theoretical and sector-based knowledge, build practical experience, and develop desirable and transferable skills. You will graduate from this global media industries master’s equipped with applied knowledge, real-world insights, a critical grounding, and a conceptual understanding of this field. This will help you not only understand the media but be empowered to reimagine the future of the global media industries.

Key Benefits

• Study at one of the UK's market-leading universities for degrees in this field, located at the heart of London's media industries.
• Gain knowledge of the media industries across national and international contexts, focusing uniquely on London.
• Choose from a range of specialist modules (e.g., Children, Media Industries and Culture, Entertainment Industries, Games Industries and Cultures, Immersive Media and Extended Realities, Media Industries and the City).
• Take advantage of our strong links with London and International media organisations providing up-to-date knowledge of current debates and trends.
• Join a vibrant Culture, Media & Creative Industries Department that specialises in this field.
• Prepare yourself for a career in the media, cultural or creative industries.

Course Essentials

Base Campus

• Strand Campus: Located on the north bank of the River Thames, the Strand Campus houses King's College London's arts and sciences faculties.

Regulating Bodies

• King's is regulated by the Office for Students.

Entry Requirements

UK Applicants

• Standard Requirements: A minimum high 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree with a final mark of at least 65% or above.
• Programme-Specific Requirements: Bachelor’s degree with high 2:1 honours (i.e., overall average of at least 65% across all years of study) in any discipline. For those returning to study, evidence of appropriate experience will be required.

International Applicants

• Equivalent International Qualifications: Select a country to view equivalent qualifications.
• English Language Requirements: English language band B. To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate in English effectively in an academic environment.

Selection Process

• Applications: Must be made online using King’s Apply, the Admissions Portal. A non-refundable application fee of £130 applies.
• Personal Statement and Supporting Information: You will be asked to submit a personal statement, previous academic study documents, references, a writing sample, and other optional documents.

Teaching and Structure

• Teaching Methods: This is a one-year full-time course (two years part-time) comprising modules totalling 180 credits. Core modules provide the foundation for the programme.
• Assessment: Your performance will be assessed through coursework. Forms of assessment typically include essays, industry reports, presentations, group work, portfolio of evidence, and a dissertation, collaborative or creative research project.
• Structure: Your course is divided into modules. To fulfil the award of MA, you will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules

• Global Media Industries: Perspectives & Approaches (30 credits)
• Media Industries: Collaborative Project (30 credits)
• Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits) choosing from:
  • i) Traditional Dissertation
  • ii) Collaborative Dissertation with Cultural Partner
  • iii) Creative Research Project

Optional Modules

• The Aesthetic Economy and Aesthetic Markets (15 credits)
• Art and Globalisation (15 credits)
• Collecting Cultures: Managing collections in museums and collecting organisations (15 credits)
• Children, Media Industries and Culture (15 credits)
• Culture: Conflict, Diplomacy, and International Relations (15 credits)
• Contextualising Creativity (15 credits)
• Creatives: Working in the Cultural Industries (15 credits)
• Culture and the City (15 credits)
• Cultural Markets (15 credits)
• Cultural Memory (15 credits)
• Cultural Policy (15 credits)
• Entertainment Industries (15 credits)
• Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Arts and Culture (selective entry) (15 credits)
• Exhibitions, Identities and Politics: in Museums and other Exhibiting Organisation (15 credits)
• Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces and Community (15 credits)
• Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (15 credits)
• Gaming Industries and Cultures (15 credits)
• Gender and Sexualities in East Asian Media (15 credits)
• Gender, Media and Culture (15 credits)
• Immersive Media and Extended Realities (15 credits)
• International Heritage and Cultural Tourism (15 credits)
• Media Industries and the City (15 credits)
• Readings of the Music Business (15 credits)

Employability

• Global Media Industries MA Graduates have used the skills and knowledge developed with us to pursue careers in a range of creative, entrepreneurial, or business roles within the global media industries. Others have continued their studies with further research.

Tuition Fees

• UK: Full time: £13,500 per year (2025/26), Part time: £6,750 per year (2025/26)
• International: Full time: £30,000 per year (2025/26), Part time: £15,000 per year (2025/26)

Deposit

• Home Deposit: £500
• International Deposit: £2000

Additional Costs

• Books: If you choose to buy your own copies
• Clothing: For optional course-related events and competitions
• Graduation Costs:
• Library Fees and Fines:
• Personal Photocopies:
• Printing Course Handouts:
• Society Membership Fees:
• Stationery:
• Travel Costs: Around London and between campuses

Funding

• Bursaries, Scholarships, Grants, Tuition Fees, Living Expenses, Student Loans, and Other Financial Help: Available at King's. Please visit the Fees and Funding section for more information.

King’s Bridge Scholarship

• King’s College London offers King’s Bridge Scholarships, covering full-time or part-time tuition fees for selected Arts & Humanities master’s programmes. Open to home students from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Learn more.