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Master a Variety of Media With a Media Communications Master’s Degree

Communications and media studies, especially at the master’s degree level, offers students a number of specializations and options. But if you are interested in studying a variety of media types in one media degree, we have the perfect master’s degree for you.

Webster University’s Master of Arts in Media Communications degree is ideal for professionals with a strong educational background in your preferred area of media, or professional experience in media communications. Our master’s level media degree offers the flexibility to create your own combination of media studies, from animation to scriptwriting to public relations and more. Our Media Communications master’s degree is the broadest, most flexible degree in Webster’s School of Communications.

By choosing Webster’s Media Communications master’s degree, you will develop expertise in a number of media areas as you build a dynamic toolkit of 21st-century communication skills. Earning your master’s in Media Communications will prepare you for a career in media fields, such as marketing, special events, corporate communications, gaming, radio, TV, advertising, animation, journalism and more.

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Choose Webster for Your Media Communications Master’s Degree

Design the Ideal Communications Degree for You

Our Media Communications master’s program allows you to design your own degree. You can choose to focus on the theory and history of media, or you may decide to combine studies in two or more media types from among our Media Communications master’s degree areas:

  • Advertising and Marketing Communications
  • Communication Management
  • Public Relations
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Feel Connected While Earning Your Online Media Communications Master’s Degree

Webster's online MA in Media Communications program offers you the convenience of earning your media degree while still working full time. Our online format is designed to connect you not only to your instructors, but also to your classmates. Together, you will learn and discuss media studies topics and network as you gain progressive skills in multiple media communications areas.

Explore Our State-of-the-Art Media Facilities and Equipment

Webster’s School of Communications complex allows you to learn in a state-of-the-art media production and education facility. Gain hands-on experience with the latest technology and equipment, including unique, first-in-the-region technologies and capabilities. Studio facilities include:

  • An Audio and Video Production/Recording Suite
  • Sound Stage
  • Workshop Space
  • Photography Studio
  • Gallery
  • Animation, Game Design and Video Post-Production Labs
  • Flexible Media Studies Teaching and Learning Spaces

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“Without communication, there is no way to educate and inform the public about topics that matter.”

Zoey Wang
Zoey Wang

MA in Media Communications, '13

Add an MBA to Your Media Communications Master’s Degree

If you’re ready to make an even more powerful impact in media communications, consider adding a Webster MBA to your media degree. Our dual degree with the MBA program option consists of completing 51 to 54 credit hours, including the required MBA courses (33 hours). Upon successful completion of all required courses and credit hours, you will receive two separate degrees — a Master of Arts in Media Communications and an MBA.

Webster University Program Spotlight: Master of Business Administration (MBA)

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Text on screen: WEBSTER UNIVERSITY PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Text on screen: Steve Hinson, MBA Program Director

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Steve Hinson

The whole curriculum is about value creation, even beginning from the very first course, which is titled Value Creation.

Text on screen: VALUE CREATION

Every course needs to point toward the same goal.

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The marketing class you take, that's all about creating value for customers. In finance, we're talking about how we create value for shareholders, how we measure value. In the capstone, we're looking at how we measure value more broadly, how is it affecting workers, the environment, and of course, how is it affecting the bottom line?

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For a classic MBA program, what you – what you typically find, the courses were very siloed. The finance class really has nothing to do with your marketing class or your work behavior class. And then it's really up to the student after they finish the MBA program to try to integrate this knowledge and figure out how all these pieces fit together.

Having this thematic approach to the program makes the program a lot more coherent.

Text on screen: One global MBA program, MULTIPLE MODALITIES

[Images depicting logging into Webster’s Connections or scrolling Webster’s website on various platforms such as on a laptop or a smart phone.]

We've actually developed all of the course content upfront, so every student is interacting with that online content, and Webster University, no matter what the modality.

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We offer the MBA program in three modalities now. We offer the traditional on ground.

Text on screen: 1. In Person

We offer classes by Zoom, what we call WebNet+. And then we offer fully online classes, which are completely asynchronous classes.

Text on screen: 3. Fully Online

[Another montage of students learning, studying or talking and professors teaching with Steve Hinson’s interview in between shots.]

Regardless of the modality you choose at Webster University, everyone shares the same course content. We've got this really robust platform. We designed it very carefully with the instructional designers. It's very accessible. Go online, you learn it, engage with it, and then come to class, let’s talk about it.

Text on screen: A diverse network of PRACTITIONER FACULTY

Really, what class is about, is the three Cs. We are coming for clarification, for context and for collaboration.

Text on screen: clarification, context, collaboration

Our faculty add context, helping students understand the applicability of the knowledge. The instructor is a subject matter expert. We'll make it make sense, but hopefully we can get passed that pretty quickly because the real value to you is that we provide the context:

How does this apply to my job? How does this apply to what I'm reading? How does this apply to companies I know and experiences as both consumer or as an employee? Really understand how this applies in the real world, so that how it applies for you.

Text on screen: An innovative approach to BUSINESS EDUCATION

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What a business does is it takes existing resources and combines them to create something of greater value. We’re creating value for our customers, creating value for owners and we're creating value for all the other relevant stakeholders.

And everything always points toward that singular purpose. If you're interested in getting an MBA, you're trying to figure out how can I gain a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge very quickly so that I can speed up my career trajectory.

All the courses are really focused on how does business and the activities of business all coordinate with each other synergistically to create value for all of these relevant stakeholders so that no matter where you are in the organization, we want you to be able to see: Okay, how do I fit in? Why do I exist? What it is that I'm trying to accomplish? What are we trying to accomplish together?

[Music swells as the montage ends. The background changes to blue with several photos of Webster University buildings, and a layer of the ACBSP logo on top.]

Text on screen: Proudly accredited by ACBSP, Global Business Accreditation

Text on screen: LEARN MORE AT WEBSTER.EDU

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Choose Webster for Your Media Communications Master's Degree

With your communications and media studies master’s degree from Webster, you will be prepared to pursue a career position in a wide variety of media and communications areas. Our alumni work in marketing, public relations, social media, digital media, corporate communications, gaming, radio, TV, advertising, animation, journalism — just about everywhere communications experts are needed. You may choose a media communications career path, such as:

  • Advertising, Marketing or Promotions Manager
  • Social Media Manager
  • Web Content Manager
  • Public Relations Manager
  • Marketing or Management Analyst
  • Brand Manager
  • Video Editor
  • Copywriter

 

Salary Information for MA in Media Communications

In a communication based society, all media communications careers are possible with the Master's in Media Communications, and there are plenty of opportunities to take advantage of. In May 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual wage for the Media and Communications grouping was $62,340. This career grouping is also projected to grow 6% in the next decade, according to the BLS.

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