Graduate Destinations

The Centre for Global Media and Communications (previously the Centre for Media Studies) at SOAS provides students with critical skills to follow a career in journalism, the arts or a more general graduate job. With a degree in Media Studies graduates have the foundations to work in a range of media related jobs such as news organisations, non-governmental agencies, United Nations organisations, marketing companies, public relations, press offices, publishing and media production. With the special focus on the Global South, graduates have the extra knowledge and skill to work in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

A degree from the Centre for Global Media and Communications provides students with a number of transferable skills that can be applied to other types of professions. These include: research skills; written and oral communication skills; visual analysis and specialist subject knowledge of media industries, media consumption and production in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Former students have gone on to employment in a range of professional roles in business and public sectors, as well as continuing in the field of research either at SOAS or other institutions.

What do Graduates do?

SOAS Graduate Careers Case Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Options with your Media Studies degree
What London graduates do

Destination of 2017 Graduates: Postgraduates

All postgraduate students are contacted 6 months after graduation to find out what they are doing - working, studying or something else, such as travelling.

Global Media and Communications Postgraduate. 2017 graduates six months after completing their studies. In work 89%. Work and study 0%. Studying 0%. Other 11%.

Example employers include:

BBC World Service
Bengal Foundation
CHC Digital
CNBC
European Parliament
Grasshoppers India Pvt. Ltd.
Hansard Society
NBCUniversal
Mosaic
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency)

Example occupations include:

Assistant Professor
Broadcast Journalist
Bureau Co-Ordinator
Digital Marketing Assistant
Communication Officer
Foreign Policy News Journalist
Head of Administration
News Trainee
Programme Manager and Marketing Executive
Scholars Programme Assistant

Examples of further study institutions:

City University
Iran Cultural House
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
SOAS University of London

Examples of further study courses:

Certificate Course in Persian
MA Classical and Contemporary Text
MPhil Media in the Middle East
PhD Journalism
PhD Media and Film Studies

Job Profiles and Careers Information

SOAS Careers Moodle – Careers by Sector, including Broadcasting, Film and Video, Publishing, Printing and Journalism, International Development, and Human Rights and Working with Refugees
SOAS Careers Service
Occupational profiles and information on Postgraduate Study at Prospects
Sector and careers information at Careers Tagged

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