Future Media, Postgraduate Taught - MA / MSc - 2022/23 entry

Our courses ensure you gain real-world experience and knowledge so you can hit the ground running when you graduate. In your year on the programme, youll be planning digital marketing and advertising campaigns with digital agencies, developing brand and product promotions with clients, making mobile, social and virtual content with leading industry professionals and building new user journeys with emerging technologies and state-of-the-art resources.

Youll tackle challenging briefs in diverse teams with industry partners to build your proficiency: MA students tend to choose broad, strategic and creative roles while MSc students often prefer tactical, planning and analytics roles. Either way, well give you the tools you need to realise your ambitions.

Bachelor Degree from a recognised university with a minimum grade of 60% / Good / 2.5 / C+

Even though you may have met the stated requirements, if your first language is not English, we may ask you to take an additional English Language Test when you arrive.

Based on the results of the test, you may be required to attend regular English classes to improve your level of competence. English classes are provided free of charge and are available to all non-UK students who wish to attain greater fluency in English.

Enhancing your employability skills

The Future Media course directly answers the industry call for “T-skilled” workers in the creative media industry, (Skillset. Strategic Skills Assessment for the Creative Media IndustryLondon. 2009: 20). Here professional employability is defined by proficiency across disciplines and specialist expertise within them. 

Typically, Future Media graduates at work are delivering multichannel digital campaigns for their clients but their choice of MA or MSc award instruction, Final Major Project and continuing professional development plans direct them towards specialist ends of the marketing spectrum:

• MSc graduates incline towards ‘planning’ roles, (the experience space around product positioning and consumer journeys), and are frequently employed as online customer experience managers in optimising accounts, performance marketing, search engine marketing and website auditing.
• MA graduates tend to choose ‘strategic’ roles, (the values space around brand strategy and consumer insight), and are frequently employed in client liaison as account managers, brand strategists, creative producers, content curators and marketing campaign development.

Amy Zhu
Account Executive at PingPong Digital

“I currently work at a Chinese digital agency. My role involves internal and external communications and assisting the social media and technical teams. Future Media was a great way to further my undergraduate degree and put the theory I’d learned into practice.

Being immersed in the latest technology, techniques and innovations helped prepare me for the competitive job market and equipped me with the skills needed for my role.”