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Admission Educational Programmes Graduate

Media Communications

42.04.01 In Russian

Level of education Master

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 2 years

Programme description

The programme is designed taking into account the current state of the media communication market, which is evolving towards hybrid, personalised, and horizontal forms of mediatised communication. The academic programme is aimed at developing experts with universal (integrative) skills in communication, who are capable of producing content for mass, corporate and personalised communication, blogs and social media, advertising, public relations and other forms of non-personal communication.

Main courses
  • Media Producing
  • Approaches and Research Methods in Media Studies
  • News Production and News Management
  • Design of Interactive Media Projects
  • Modern Digital Photography
  • Production of Video and Audio Content
  • Media Project / Communication Project
  • Fundamentals of Programming and Visualisation for Media Projects
  • Marketing of Goods, Services and Territorial Entities
  • Economics of Media Projects
  • Management of a Communication Agency
  • Online Platforms and Their Content
  • Online Promotion: Strategies and Techniques
  • Photo and Video Blogging
  • SMM: Social Media Marketing
  • Big Social Data: Social Network Content Analysis
  • Communication Ethics Practice
Our advantages
  • "Man = Media" is the mission of this programme. The knowledge and skills offered to students will help them establish their own media enterprise or work in fields related to communication
  • Graduates of the programme are capable of: planning a media project; managing content creation processes and creating content themselves; analysing the audience and market; and working with data from social media. These skills are combined with knowledge of modern society, cultural and political trends and problem areas in Internet practices
  • Students acquire a body of knowledge sufficient for all professional tasks in the field of media communication

 

International relations
  • The Free University of Berlin (Germany)
  • TU Dortmund University (Germany)
  • Volda University College (Norway)
  • Beijing International Studies University (China)
  • Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
  • George Mason University (USA)
  • The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
  • The University of Wrocław (Poland)
  • Hong Kong Baptist University (China)
Сareer opportunities

The educational programme is aimed at training media managers who capable of managing hybrid media projects, with knowledge in the field of journalism, media management, media economics, marketing, production, advertising and public relations.

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The programme descriptions for the 2025/2026 academic year are currently being updated. Information regarding admissions for the 2025/2026 academic year is available on the St Petersburg University Admissions Committee website.

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