BA (Hons) Media and Communication with Year Abroad in Leicester United Kingdom | University of Leicester

Our Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication equips students with comprehensive knowledge of modern topics concerning the principles, evolution, and application of mass and interactive communication across global contexts. The program explores news production processes, examines the interplay between media sectors, political systems, cultural influences, and societal dynamics, while covering diverse media formats from traditional print journalism to digital platforms like Twitter, and from blockbuster cinema to unscripted television programming. With Leicester University pioneering media studies since 1966, our curriculum incorporates the latest advancements in the discipline, maintaining our position among the UK's top 15 institutions for Communication and Media Studies. In today's world, media content travels with us - accessible via smartphones, tablets, and educational settings, far surpassing the stationary television era. Media now plays a fundamental role in driving social movements and political transformations. Whether through visual platforms like Pinterest, geotagged social media posts, established print journalism, or film critiques shared on video platforms, media has become such an omnipresent aspect of daily life that its significance often goes unnoticed.