Your Career after Mass Communication Studies

Media is the most powerful weapon for shaping and cultivating public opinion. While some acknowledge it as a medium of revolution, others state it a medium of spreading awareness. Print, Radio, TV and Online - all the mediums are booming at this time with information and job opportunities.

Students who wish to make a career in this field can choose from these popular programmes in the discipline -

Undergraduate Programmes:

• BSc in Mass communication
• BA (H) Jounalism
• Bachelors of Mass Media and Mass Communication
• BA in Journalism and Mass Communication
• Diploma in visual communication
• Diploma in advertising and PR
• Certificate courses in event management

Postgraduate Programmes:

• MA in Mass Communication
• MSc in Mass Communication
• PG diploma in Mass Communication
• PG diploma in advertising
• PG diploma in PR
• PG deiploma in media studies
• Film Studies courses
• MA in Convergent Journalism

 Eligibility:

Minimum eligibility for a Bachelor degree is 10+2. Often, most universtities/ colleges offering media programmes have entrance exam to shortlist students. For postgraduate courses a bachelors degree is required. For one-year certificate courses eligibility is 10+2. Students contemplating a career in media must have excellent communication skills and smart personas.

Skills and Remuneration

Students wishing to pursue a career in this sector must be creative, dynamic, and enterprising with a flair to project his/her ideas, thoughts, observations through different mediums of communication. With everything going digital, job opportunities as well as remuneration are being redefined everyday.

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