Bachelor of Media and Communication

University of Tasmania - Hobart

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Overview

Media connects every aspect of our personal and professional lives, from the 24-hour news cycle to social media trends and endless streaming services. The ability to create content, and understand the role of communication in culture and society, opens doors to dynamic and rewarding career opportunities.

The Bachelor of Media and Communication will introduce you to communication practices across news and journalism, digital content production, marketing and public relations, and film-making. You’ll gain professional insights into global media industries, including evolving trends in media production and communication practices, and deepen your understanding of how media informs and reflects culture and society.

Located at Salamanca Place, the historic heart of Hobart’s creative wharf precinct, the Media School is a great place to start your career. Our teaching teams are world-leading researchers and experienced broadcasters, journalists, and filmmakers. You’ll also experience creative collaborations with Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre and Performance students. Our curriculum is designed to enable close creative networks, test working relationships, and leverage your accomplishments to generate future opportunities. You could find yourself working within Tasmania’s unique festival scene, creatively solving real client briefs, or soaking up inspiration on a field trip overseas.

Potential Career Outcomes

The Bachelor of Media and Communications will prepare you to work in fast-paced and dynamic communications roles across a multitude of fields, including Tasmania’s booming screen industry. You’ll become a strategic and creative forward thinker with the ability to prepare content for a range of channels and audiences. You will develop advanced interpersonal, communication and presentation skills that will lead you to exciting career opportunities across journalism, public relations, communications management, reporting, social media and marketing.

The ability to make, analyse and research media opens doors to a wide range of creative and exciting occupations across all industries. These are some of the top careers projected to grow in the next five years.

9.2% Multimedia specialists

21.7% Advertising and Marketing professionals

15.8% Public Relations professionals

ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024.

Postgraduate study

The Bachelor of Media and Communication with Honours is a specialised one-year course that enables to pursue your passion for a project or research topic. An Honours degree opens up opportunities in the competitive job market and provides a pathway to an academic career. You'll develop superior project management skills and advanced knowledge of research methodologies.

You may be also be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2022.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer97.5597.55
Median rank to receive an offer73.9573.95
Lowest rank to receive an offer50.3550.35

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the University of Tasmania website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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