Program Overview

Undergraduate Pathway in Media

Birmingham School of Media is home to a suite of industry-standard facilities: TV studios, radio studios, post-production suites, dubbing suites and a green screen studio.

Facilities are used by industry as well as students. The school has recently partnered with Huffpost UK, giving students the opportunity to experience work in a live newsroom environment.

Birmingham City University (BCU) is ranked 1^st in the UK for Film Production and Photography and in the UK Top 30 for Media and Film Studies (The Guardian 2025).

This course will prepare you for a career in journalism by providing you with the knowledge and cutting-edge skills required to be a professional journalist. You will become an agile, independent reporter working across multiple platforms with the ability to understand the democratic role of journalism in society, ensuring a diversity of stories are told.

This course will prepare you for a career in journalism by providing you with the knowledge and cutting-edge skills required to be a professional journalist. You will become an agile, independent reporter working across multiple platforms with the ability to understand the democratic role of journalism in society, ensuring a diversity of stories are told. The course will enable you to become an adaptable journalist capable of working in innovative, engaging and entrepreneurial ways.

This course has been designed in close collaboration with leading industry experts and researchers in journalism. Through a range of complementary modules, you will learn a diverse set of journalistic skills for all news platforms and understand the wider issues that face the journalism industry. The course will prepare you for everything from live reporting to interviewing key figures, enabling you to ask the difficult questions required to cover the key contemporary issues that make up an ever-changing and increasingly diverse news agenda.