University of Navarra

Located in: Spain

The University of Navarra is the best School of Communication in Spain, according to the annual ranking of El Mundo, which evaluates the quality of all the Spanish universities.  The University of Navarra gets the leading position in the Journalism degree and the second in Audiovisual communications as well as in Advertising and Public Relations.

The University of Navarra chooses to focus on both learning in the classrooms as well as practical experience.  Practical work and contact with professionals in the field are keystones of the educational programs offered.

In order to achieve this goal, the school of communication:

• involves more than one hundred distinguished media professionals and former students who take active part in the teaching of communication and theory and practice.
• has excellent facilities including: a TV studio, eight digital editing suites, five radio studios, information editing suites, an archive, a sound studio and computer rooms.

The official degrees include:

Corporate Communication

Cultural Communication

Integrated Marketing Communication

Political Communication

Media Management

Cinema and Television Scriptwriting

Visual Journalism

Production for film and TV

One of the well-known programs is the International Media Program, the first qualifications of its kind in Spain.  Its purpose is to provide graduates with an international profile in the communications sector.  This program can include an academic year in universities in Europe, North American or Asia, Internships in international media, and bilingual classes.

Jönköping University

Located in: Sweden

The Media and Communication Studies Program at Jönköping University stared in the 1970s and is one of the most well-established universities in Sweden.  It requires three years to complete and leads to a Bachelors of Social Science in Media and Communication Studies.

The Program has a strong international perspective and students have numerous opportunities to study and perform practical work abroad.

There are three different areas of specialization in the Communication Studies Program:

Media Production - focuses on producing information in traditional media as well as new media.  Courses include: news production, radio and TV production.

Organizational Communication -  focuses on the management of communication in organizations.  Courses include: crisis communication, internal and external communication.

Public Relations/Market Communication - focuses on PR in a broad sense, and on market-oriented communication.  Courses include: market communication, brand management and copy-writing.

This major is separated into a three year tentative schedule

Year 1: Media and Communications Science

The first year is the same for all students.  The courses include classes such as Mass-Media Studies, Visual Communication, Political Communication, and Communication and Technology.

Year 2: Specialization

The three different areas of specialization are public relations/market communication, organizational, and media production.  All areas of specialization focus on practical work.  The students also receive an international perspective, and the School of Education and Communication cooperates with other partner universities all over the world.  This provides students with the opportunity to meet professors and lecturers from other universities to do their work placement abroad.

Year 3, Semester 1: Media and Communication Science, includes an exam paper

Year 3, Semester 2: Optional

This semester has options for students to choose to study at a partner universities abroad.

Jönköping University Foundation is one of three independent institutions of higher education in Sweden offering postgraduate programmes

 

Link Campus University

Location: Malta

Link Campus University has a three-year Bachelor of Arts in Communications Management program.  Subjects studied can include: history, theory and techniques of Communications, professional writing, journalism, radio, TV, and the new media.  Management and economics of the communications field is also included.

All modules are paired with labs, which incorporate Link TV by writing and realizing TV programs and also write for internal magazines and papers.

Link TV is the tv-laboratory of the campus that acts like an university and as an instrument for the students in interact with the world of work, to comprehend the new communication forms and new media.

In the first semester of the students' third year of study, students have the option to join a study abroad programs.  Their credits can be transfered and students cans study at the University of Malta, the University of Westminister (London) or Santa Barbara in California, and many more.

Link Campus University is an International University that was initially constituted as the Italian branch of the University of Malta.  It was founded in 1999, and has been the first foreign university authorized to operate in Italy.

European University

European University has several campuses in different countries. All campuses follow an the same curriculum. Students are allowed and encouraged to transfer between campuses between semesters.

The campuses are in the folowing locations:
-Barcelona (Spain)
-Geneva (Switzerland)
-Montreux (Switzerland)
-Yvorne (Switzerland)
-Munich (Germany)
-London (UK)
-Freiburg (Germany)
-Vienna (Austria)
-Istanbul (Turkey)
-Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
-Uralsk (Kazakhstan)
-Singapore
-Damascus (Syria)
-Taipei (Taiwan)
-Shenzhen (China)
-Shanghai (China)
-Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)

European University is primarily a business school but offers a variety of courses. The main goal of EU is to use the American education model by relating classroom theory to professional skills. Clases are taught in English.

European University offers a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Public Relations in all of their locations. The program takes 3 years to complete. It offers students practical media skills and a broad theoretical understanding of public relations and corporate communication.

Many of the courses that students are required to take concentrate on business

Information found on http://www.euruni.edu/en/Programs-Tree.html

The American University of Paris

The American University of Paris has a well noted major in Global Communications. There is a Bachelors program as well as a masters degree offered in this field of study. 

 It strives to provide students with understanding in current research with practical skills to understand and be involved in communications at global, local, and individual levels.  Graduates of this major understand the new rapid trends such as new media and new cultural forms.

Students also learn a solid liberal arts background necessary for success in the communications field.  The program also focuses on research methods, including historical, textual, socio-cultural, and empirical approaches and procedures for writing and presenting research.

The Global Communications program also has the opportunities for students to specialize in different areas.  These include: Production, Media Convergence, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Journalism. 

 Each specialization has a group of related courses in which if the student takes 3 of the classes, that specific specialization will be complete.

The American University of Paris is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in the State of Delaware and licensed by the State Board of Education as a Delaware institution of higher education.

Bournemouth University in England

Bournemouth University has 17,000 students and 2 campuses in the UK. They offer over 40 courses of study including public relations.

Bournemouth University offers a masters program for public relations. In order to receive the degree students must take 3 terms which takes one year at full time.

Term 1 – Core

Focuses mostly on theories and principles of public relations. Some written and oral communication is emphasized as well.

Public Relations: Principles and Foundations

Corporate Public Relations

Public Relations Communication Skills

Term 2 – Core

These courses focus on how to be an effective public relations practitioner. Each course gives students experience to utilize the theories and principles they learned in the past term. There is an emphasis on new media, research, and campaigning.

Public Relations Programmes

Interactive Media Strategies

Research Principles and Practice

Term 3 – MA Stage
Students who successfully complete the first two terms of the course will be entitled to the award of Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations. Those who proceed to Term 3 will undertake the Integrated Campaign Planning unit AND either the Academic or Consultancy Project.
Core Unit
Integrated Campaign Planning
This class is assessed through a live brief, usually from a UK advertising agency, that will allow students’ knowledge to be used to address a current and “real” marketing communications situation. In collaboration with students from the MA in Advertising and Marketing Communication degree, students will work as part of a team of advertising, marketing communications and public relations specialists.

Independent Project
To complete the MA stage of the degree, students must choose and undertake ONE of the following independent projects:

Academic Project
The academic project consists of a 10,000 word research paper or book chapter of publishable standard designed for a publication in an academic journal or book of the student’s choice. Students will write on a subject of interest to them from the public relations field.

Consultancy Project
This project is a 10,000 word report/proposal wherein the student acts as a consultant for a selected organisation, company or individual. Within the report, students will identify and define a communication problem or situation and develop appropriate public relations solutions. Students will be expected to engage in research in order to justify their recommendations.

Information found at: www.bournemouth.ac.uk

Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication in India

SIMC is a university in India with three separate campuses; Lavale, Viman, and Bangalore. These campuses are spread out around India but Lavale is home to the communication program. 

There are several different graduate level programs offered by SIMC. There are programs in mass communication, which includes journalism, audio-visual communication and visual communication. There is also a program in communication management, which includes advertising. Public relations falls under the communication management umbrella. 

The communication management program offers courses in advertising and public relations. Advertising courses include client servicing, account planning, media & creative, and art & copy. Public relations courses include public relations, corporate communication, and event management. This program also requires six minor industry projects, one major industry project, one social communication project and dissertation writing. This program of study will take two years, spread over 4 semesters with 16 credit hours in each. 

All information was adapted from: http://www.simc.edu/pgp_curriculum.aspx