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Global Media Industries MA

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This Global Media Industries MA will equip you with skills needed for a career in the media. You’ll enhance your theoretical and sector-based knowledge, build practical experience and develop desirable and transferable skills. You will graduate from this global media industries master’s equipped with applied knowledge, real-world insights, a critical grounding, and a conceptual understanding of this field. This will help you not only understand the media but be empowered to reimagine the future of the global media industries.

Key benefits

  • Study at one of the UK's market-leading universities for degrees in this field, located at the heart of London's media industries.
  • Gain knowledge of the media industries across national and international contexts, focusing uniquely on London.
  • Choose from a range of specialist modules (e.g. Children, Media Industries and Culture, Entertainment Industries, Games Industries and Cultures, Immersive Media and Extended Realities, Media Industries and the City)
  • Take advantage of our strong links with London and International media organisations providing up-to-date knowledge of current debates and trends.
  • Join a vibrant Culture, Media & Creative Industries Department that specialises in this field
  • Prepare yourself for a career in the media, cultural or creative industries.

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Employability

Global Media Industries MA Graduates have used the skills and knowledge developed with us to pursue careers in a range of creative, entrepreneurial, or business roles within the global media industries. Others have continued their studies with further research.

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Employability

Global Media Industries MA Graduates have used the skills and knowledge developed with us to pursue careers in a range of creative, entrepreneurial, or business roles within the global media industries. Others have continued their studies with further research.

Application closing date guidance

We encourage you to apply as early as possible so that there is sufficient time for your application to be assessed. We may need to request further information from you during the application process.

King's College London is committed to the recruitment of students with the greatest academic ability and to maintain a diverse student population. In order to ensure a balanced international student population for our most competitive programmes, we have implemented the following deadlines:

For applicants who are currently residing in mainland China, the first application deadline is 10 January 2025 (23:59 UK time).

  • We highly encourage you to apply by this deadline due to high demand, but applications will continue to be reviewed thereafter until the final application deadline on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time).
  • If you reside in mainland China and apply for this programme after the above final deadline, your application may be automatically withdrawn and you will not be eligible for an application fee refund.

For all other applicants, our first application deadline is on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time). The final application deadlines for this programme are:

  • Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2025 (23:59 UK time)
  • Home fee status: 25 August 2025 (23:59 UK time)

After the first application deadline in March:

  • if the programme is not yet full, we will continue to accept applications until all available places are filled up to the final application deadlines above
  • if the programme becomes full before the final application deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications

Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline, and we are unable to process further offers because places are filled and we close the course before the final application deadline.

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