Media and Communications Brunel University of London

Overview

Throughout your Media and Communications degree course offered by Brunel University of London, you’ll have access to mentoring and placement opportunities, while benefiting from our formal partnership with the British Film Institute, involving a series of careers masterclasses and media industry-ready training. We arrange partnerships with employers and ensure that you have access to a wide range of placement opportunities throughout your course; current partners include Creative UK and CallTime Foundations. This practical work will equip you with the skills you’ll need for a media related career or for working in the field of production.

With free access to the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite, you will gain a foundation in areas such as photography, audio-visual production, and video editing in our dedicated edit suites. You’ll learn how this competitive industry works from a variety of perspectives while debating the latest challenges for media and society, from free speech to the disruptive or connective powers of social media and the metaverse.

Careers and your future

Many of our students choose to pursue a career in marketing, events, production co-ordination, research and buying in the media industries, or PR and journalism. There are several opportunities throughout the course to develop contacts with media industry professionals and to undertake work placements in your chosen field, along with building the modern transferable skills that are attractive to a range of employers. 

Three years after graduation, over 93% of our students are in employment or further study, compared to the sector median of 84.7%, and our media graduates earn on average £3,000 more per year than the sector mean (Discover Uni, 2023).