Future Media - MA

4.5
1 review
  • The student union was great and the facilities were fine. The societies and the club were well organized.Anyway, I don't consider myself prepared for the job by the university.
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Master

In Birmingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    1 Year

Our courses ensure you gain real-world experience and knowledge so that you are ‘agency ready’ when you graduate. In your year on the programme, you’ll be planning digital marketing and advertising campaigns with leading digital agencies, developing brand and product promotions with prestigious clients, making mobile, social and virtual content with award-winning industry professionals and building new user journeys with emerging technologies and state-of-the –art resources.

During the course you’ll be collaborating with industry partners to professionalise your own expertise in the agency skill-sets you want develop: MA students tend to choose broad, strategic and creative roles while MSc students often prefer tactical, planning and analytics roles. Either way, we’ll give you the tools you need to realise your ambitions.

You’ll get to work with top agency professionals and impressive client accounts on state-of-the-art campaigns as you tackle challenging briefs with our industry partners who include some of the worlds most important agencies: Unruly, Mediacom, Think Jam, Found, Red Bee Media, AMV XLAB and SapientNitro. And, you’ll be working in multidisciplinary teams to broaden your skill-sets as well as fine-tuning your own expertise with your MA and MSc peers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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15 Bartholomew Row, B5 5JU

Start date

On request

About this course

OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.

You must be a graduate. If you do not have a degree, you may be accepted if you can demonstrate equivalent experience and / or qualifications.

You will be required to undertake a set task as part of the interview process to assess your aptitude for either route-way. A place on the MSc or MA will be offered, subject to both your preferences and the potential you can demonstrate. You will not be required to commit to a particular route-way at the online application stage, so if you are unsure which route to apply for this can be discussed during the interview.

All our staff are professional academics with decades of proven experience and award winning track records in digital marketing communications and advertising.
Our industry partners are in the world’s top agency listings with global clients, some of the most famous brands in the world, elite credentials and internationally awarded campaigns that reach billions of users around the planet every moment of every day and in every conceivable way.
All your assignments are rooted in real-world briefs with prestigious links to industry and bespoke professional mentoring so you learn the skills by doing the job.
Your final three-month project is all about you, your choices and your professional development: most students who leverage their project as a mentored conduit to employment gain a job in their field of choice.

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Reviews

4.5
  • The student union was great and the facilities were fine. The societies and the club were well organized.Anyway, I don't consider myself prepared for the job by the university.
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4.6
excellent

Course rating

Recommended

Centre rating

Student Reviewer

4.5
24/05/2019
About the course: The student union was great and the facilities were fine. The societies and the club were well organized.Anyway, I don't consider myself prepared for the job by the university.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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This centre's achievements

2020

All courses are up to date

The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 14 years

Subjects

  • Design
  • Marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Art
  • Project
  • Planning
  • Industry
  • Social Media
  • Project Management
  • Media
  • Production
  • Relationship Management
  • Creative Direction
  • Digital Production
  • Film Marketing
  • Future Media
  • Digital Marketing Discovery

Course programme

MA Pathway Modules

For MA students, the learning experience and outcomes concentrate on:
  • Client account handling and creative direction.
  • Creative brief writing, concept development, visualisation and copywriting.
  • Customer relationship management, task models, user journeys and wire frame development.
  • Creative skills development in design, brand development and guardianship.
  • Web analytics, search and social media monitoring.
  • Video content creation, production and delivery for deployment.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 140 credits):
  • Future Media and Digital Marketing: Discovery
  • Design: (Strategy) and Project Management (Creative)
  • Digital Production in Practice
  • Major Project
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete at least 40 credits from the following indicative list of OPTIONAL modules.
  • Deployment (Strategy) and Creative Direction
  • Film Marketing, Planning and Deployment
Core modules are guaranteed to run. Optional modules will vary from year to year and the published list is indicative only.

Additional information

International students
Award: MA Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 1 year
Fees - £14,500 per year

Future Media - MA

Price on request