Master of Science [M.S] [Media and Communication Studies] From Stockholm University

Media and Communication Studies is an international and vibrant interdisciplinary field of studies with influences from both social sciences and the humanities. Research and studies within the field aim to understand and/or explain both historical developments and contemporary phenomena involving media.

The focus of this international Master’s programme is to offer a critical approach to contemporary social, political and cultural issuesin media and communications. The university provides up-to-date engagement with key issues, theories and problems in media engagement, democracy and cultural citizenship, media industries and creativity, gender, health and society, audiences, popular culture and everyday life. Courses tackle contemporary debates about knowledge, power and social relations in national and transnational media environments.

Media management focuses on the development and commercial operation of media products and services aimed at a consumer market, and the programme therefore offers courses giving relevant knowledge regarding technology, content, production, distribution, market understanding and enterprise management in the media industry and related areas.

The main objective of the programme is to provide students with the skills required for managing media enterprises, preparing them for advanced industrial positions or continued graduate studies. 

For entry to a master's programme, the minimum requirement is a 3-year Bachelor's degree with honours, 4-year Bachelor's degree, or a Bachelor's degree followed by a Master's degree (4 years of study in total). 

To be eligible for the programme the applicant must have the equivalent of a Swedish Bachelor’s degree with a major (i.e. at least 90 ECTS credits) in Media and Communication Studies or the equivalent

A Swedish or foreign degree equivalent to Bachelor’s degree of 180 ECTS credits in computer science, media technology, information technology, human-computer interaction, or similar programme with an engineering or science profile, alternatively a Bachelor’s degree in social science relevant to the scope of the programme.