Overview

You’ll explore the relationships between media audiences and representations, between media industries and creative practices. Engaging with media businesses, charities and digital agencies, you’ll graduate with the media and communications skills needed to rethink the media as a force for change.

Shaped by our leading research in gender and representation, multi-platform media and digital technologies, film and TV industries and game and music cultures, you’ll build up a portfolio of research and research-led media artefacts and work towards a final-year creative industry project that communicates your ideas to audiences. Our media and communication graduates have gone on to work in areas such as digital marketing, social media, education, PR and media policy.

Careers

The Media Communications (Hons) program offered by Bath Spa University is ideal for aspiring:

Media researchers and creative strategists
Advertisers and digital media marketers
Social media and branding creatives
Academics and media policy-makers of the future.

Our Media Communications graduates have gone into digital marketing, social media, publishing, education, PR, media policy and more, and have been employed by companies including Komedia, Conversation Creation, Apollo Strategic Communications and Cognisess.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Global Media

Promotional Media

Digital Cultures

Music, Media and Markets

Television, Representation and Gender

Stardom and Celebrity

Participatory Media

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-22 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-14 00:00:00

Language

English

Duolingo English Test

110

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TOEFL^® IBT

72

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Bath, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Communication Studies Media Studies & Mass Media Digital Media View 195 other Bachelors in Communication Studies in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

Duolingo English Test

110

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TOEFL^® IBT

72

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6

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Other requirements

General requirements

They accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed below:

A Level - grades BBC-CCC preferred.
BTEC - Extended Diploma grades from Distinction, Merit, Merit (DMM) to Merit, Merit, Merit (MMM) accepted in any subject.
T Levels – grade Merit-Pass (C+) preferred.
International Baccalaureate - a minimum of 27 points are required.
Access to HE courses - typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, including 30 at merit or higher).

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

17670 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

9535 GBP / year

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Living costs

Bath

United Kingdom

808 - 1228 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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