/ Undergraduate /
Start date:
September 2024
September 2025
You'll need:
2024/25 entry: Call 0300 303 8320 to find out if you are eligible for this programme in Clearing
UCAS Code:
P500
P501
Clearing
This course is open for Clearing
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It all starts here. Become a professional journalist, learn how to tell great stories, and how to prepare your work for publication across a range of different media platforms.
Did you know?
This Journalism programme is accredited by the industry professional body The Professional Publishers Association (PPA).
The accreditation ensures that you receive training that meets industry standards. It provides students with the opportunity to link up with the body, whose members publish titles ranging from Vogue and GQ to Heat magazine.
Industry professionals will provide you with hands-on, practical training to develop skills in feature writing, magazine production, social media work, podcasting and video production.
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Foundation Year
This course can also be studied with a foundation year (September entry only).
Modules
This course offers all students the option of a one-year paid work placement, to boost your employability even further. If you choose this route, you will take the placement following year two of your course, and then return to complete your degree.
Why take a placement?
A placement year is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable work experience, to build on the career skills we will teach you on this degree. The connections you make on the placement will improve your career prospects further, and equip you with the skills you need to secure graduate-level employment.
How we support you
The University's Placement and Work Experience Team are experts at helping you to secure a placement. They will work closely with you from the start, helping you research potential employers, discover placement opportunities, create and pitch your CV, and will coach you to perform well in interviews. We aren't able to guarantee a placement, but our sector-leading advisors will give you the best possible chance of securing one.
Find out more about how we'll support you
We understand that your plans might change once you start your programme. If you decide not to do a placement, you will have the option of completing the three year version of your programme.
Whatever your choice, you will have access to many opportunities for work experience through our Placement and Work Experience Team, and access to face-to-face and 24/7 online careers support.
This course is offered as a degree with foundation year – a four-year programme which provides an additional foundation year at the beginning of the degree, that will give you academic and practical experience, as well as the skills you need to ensure you are equipped to successfully complete your chosen degree.
£2,000 Foundation Scholarships for all home students
Find out more about our degrees with a foundation year
Skills
Get industry ready on a course designed with your future in mind.
During this course, you’ll study the key elements of journalism and navigating the media. You’ll also have chances to shape your degree around your own interests and ambitions, with modules around:
- Storytelling
- Reporting
- Working with new media
- Magazine production
- The media industry
Learning
Enjoy hands-on, accessible learning that prepares you for an exciting career.
- Master the art of delivering delivering compelling stories, utilising industry-standard digital tools.
- Specialise in subjects and formats that grab your interest by creating your own multimedia production.
- In your final year, you will develop a multimedia magazine or create an audio-visual web project.
You will be taught by seasoned academics from different parts of the world, each with extensive industry experience at the BBC, Reuters (the world's largest international multimedia news provider), the Financial Times and more. We also bring professional journalists and newsmakers to the campus to participate in workshops, and advise students on their projects and career options.
Careers
Use stories to make the world a better place.
Whether you want to work in print, radio, television or online media, or become a social media influencer, our BA Journalism will provide you with the skills to pursue a broad range of career options. You could go on to work as a:
- News reporter
- Writer
- Editor
- Producer
- Broadcaster in local, national or international media
- Independent content producer
Many Journalism graduates are also employed in communications, public affairs and public/media relations.
A strong understanding of what makes a good story and how to build narratives and press releases is important to the communications and PR efforts of businesses, charities, political parties and pressure groups.
The creative skills and journalistic nous developed over your degree will be highly valued by employers outside of the media industry.
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Applying
Full-time UK undergraduate students apply through UCAS.
Entry tariff
2024/25 entry: Call 0300 303 8320 to find out if you are eligible for this programme in Clearing
We welcome applications from students studying T Levels.
For all courses we also accept a wide range of other qualifications and experience. Contact us to find out more.
When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential, and can offer flexibility in entry requirements. Find out more about our Contextual Offer scheme.
Specific entry requirements
An A-Level in a Humanities-related subject is preferred, but not essential.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees
Year one fees
UK: £9,250
Placement year: £998
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
International undergraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Entry tariff
We welcome applications from students studying T Levels.
For all courses we also accept a wide range of other qualifications and experience. Contact us to find out more.
When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential, and can offer flexibility in entry requirements. Find out more about our Contextual Offer scheme.
Specific entry requirements
An A-Level in a Humanities-related subject is preferred, but not essential.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees
Year one fees
EU and International: £15,750
Placement year: £998
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.