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- Hey everyone, I'm Sam Clark with Crimson Education.
And today we were talking about "The Top Eight
Communication and Media Studies Schools in the World".
Now, a little disclaimer, before we get started
this list is based on the QS Rankings
of top colleges and universities around the world.
So it's by no means the definitive ranking
of the best communication media studies schools
in the world, but it's a pretty good ranking.
And it's based on things such as employee reputation,
citations per professor, and more.
But if you wanna learn more about the communication
and media studies school or any other school
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Number eight on our list
is the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore or NTU
and then Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information.
The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
at NTU has the most comprehensive media studies
and communications curriculum in Asia.
And there's a couple of different options
in terms of how you pursue your media studies there.
You can get a Bachelor of the Arts
in one of two combinations.
One is economics and media analytics
and one is psychology and media analytics.
So depending on whether you want to study media
in the realm of business, or if you wanna study it more
in terms of thinking about how we as a society
and how we as human beings, approach communication
and media, that will sort of determine which one
of those tracks you wanna go on.
Number seven on our list is Goldsmiths University of London.
Goldsmiths University of London is really, really focused
on a hands-on practical approach to media studies.
Goldsmiths hands-on approach to media studies
includes their next generation film school
which throws students into making films,
into making film to journalism
and into really actually doing
what it is that they're studying while they're studying it.
Goldsmiths defines their academic approach
as creative, critical and radical.
Meaning that they're looking at things
from every different angle but also trying to take
radical new approaches whether that comes through journalism
or to filmmaking, or to anything else within their school
and their film school.
Number six on our list is the University of California,
Berkeley or UC Berkeley.
In contrast to Goldsmiths, UC Berkeley is very focused
on a liberal arts discipline
not on a pre-professional discipline
when it comes to media studies.
UC Berkeley has three core courses
when it comes to media studies.
And they're all about the history, the values
and the structure of media
specifically in the United States
but also looking a bit more internationally.
Students oftentimes at UC Berkeley, look both
at the impact of media on public policy and vice versa.
The impact of public policy on media and how those are two
oftentimes inextricably linked and inform one another.
Number five on our list is the University of Texas, Austin
or UT Austin.
UT Austin is on our list in large part
because of its communications major rather than a media.
So they say that they focus on two
person and family communication.
They focus on communication,
small groups in large organizations
communication across communities,
the very nature and the building of communication
of languages of symbols and more.
So it's much more sort of focused on how language is built,
how communication is built, how arguments are made,
how social movements occur, how political organizations
are put together, that sort of thing.
Number four, on our list is the London School of Economics
or LSE, which is also number one in the UK.
LSE is really focused on a broad range
of postgraduate programs.
In fact, they have 10 postgraduate programs.
They have focuses in data and society,
politics and communication, as well as joint degrees
with various universities that are associated with LSE
in Asia and in Africa.
So if you're going to LSE to focus on media studies
and communication, you'll be doing at a postgrad level
but there's a really, really broad range of approaches
that you could take depending on specifically
the postgraduate program that you'll be studying under.
Number three on our list
is the University of Southern California or USC.
There's a lot to be said
about the USC programs in communications.
They're some of the best in the world,
the third best in the world
but one of the biggest delineators for USC
is its location in Los Angeles.
So a lot of students who are studying
at USC will also have internships
at anywhere from 20th Century Fox, to Viacom,
CBS Television, Disney, L, Fox, NBC
and hundreds of other places.
There's an incredible alumni network
and there's an incredible array of opportunities
for professionals within those industries
to come to USC and vice versa
for students at USC to go out
and have the types of internships while they're studying
that will lead to lucrative and incredible
and fulfilling careers in the industry.
Number two, on our list is Stanford University
and their department of communication.
The department of communication at Stanford is very robust
and takes a very academic approach
rather than a pre-professional approach.
They studied the ways in which in their words,
in the ways that communication techniques
and technologies shape who we are, how we govern ourselves
and what kinds of cultures we inhabit.
So they both look at media theory and immediate practice
in terms of studying these phenomena.
And they're proud to have trained a lot of scholars
who not only excel in their fields,
but who reshape their fields.
Including some of the most successful high impact
to journalists in the world and leading members
in many, many, many fields.
And number one on our list is The University of Amsterdam.
The University of Amsterdam considers the role
of communication and media in society
to be its central focus in his bachelor program.
In their words, in that program
you study the content, use and effects of communication
and the various forms of media from radio to television,
to the newspapers and the internet.
To me, that's very exciting
about the university of Amsterdam's program
and probably a central reason why it's number one
on the list is that their communication college is linked
to the research institute, A-S-C-O-R
which stands for, stands for something that we'll research
and then put here.
Another exciting feature of The University of Amsterdam
is the city of Amsterdam,
which itself is a hub for media, for culture.
Considers itself to be an international junction
of a lot of big media companies around the world,
Phillips, ING, Heineken the beer.
They all have large hubs at The University of Amsterdam
and there's a lot of opportunities
for University of Amsterdam students
to go work for those companies, with those companies
while they're studying and certainly
in a postgraduate capacity as well.
That has been the top eight communication
and media studies schools in the world,
according to the QS Rankings.
But like I said before
these aren't the definitive rankings there.
It doesn't mean that you need to go
to The University of Amsterdam or Stanford
in order to have an incredible career
in communication and media studies.
It's just a good place to start.
So if you wanna learn more about the school,
that might be the best fit for you
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