After graduation

Opportunities after graduating

Media & Creative Industries graduates are widely employable professionals with excellent career opportunities. Below you can read more about the career opportunities after finishing this specialisation of the master Media Studies.

Career opportunities

You will be up for a variety of management, marketing, consultancy, communication and public relations positions in media production, creative industries, advertising, and beyond. The master specialisation Media & Creative Industries also offers a strong foundation if you aim to start your own creative business, carry out media and market research, or pursue a career in media production or policy making.

Academic career

If you want to proceed with advanced, research-oriented education in the field of media studies you can apply for our research master Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts. This programme is specifically designed to prepare you to carry out research leading to a doctorate degree.

If you have demonstrated academic excellence and motivation during your master Media Studies specialisation and your English meets the standard, you will be allowed to complete an abridged research master programme of one year.

Our alumni

The master Media Studies at Erasmus University counts more than 1000 graduates who completed one of the following specialisations: Media & Business, Media, Culture & Society, Media & Creative Industries, Media & Journalistiek, and Media, Digitalisation & Social Impact (formerly Digitalisation Surveillance & Societies).

On our alumni website you can read the alumni experiences from graduates of our five master programmes and you will discover how the international, hands-on approach of the master Media Studies is reflected in the wide variety of work fields and countries in which our graduates are employed.