After graduation

Opportunities after graduating

Media, Digitalisation & Social Impact graduates are widely employable professionals with excellent career opportunities. Below you can find various opportunities after your graduation.

Career opportunities

As a Media, Digitalisation & Social Impact graduate, you will be able to lead the conversation about digital media, AI and its societal impacts, in a number of diverse settings.

You will be up for careers in the tech sector, as well as journalism, regulation, and policy work. Graduates will gain timely expertise well suited to consulting and advising positions in the public sector, well as public and private think tanks.

Graduates will be especially well placed to address matters of social impact and social responsibility at businesses that deal with innovative technologies (including household technologies, security, and digital health).

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 Media Studies programme 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 1500 graduates who completed one of the following Media Studies master specialisations: Media & Business, Media, Culture & Society, Media & Creative Industries, Media & Journalistiek (NL), and Media, Digitalisation & Social Impact.

On our alumni website you can read the alumni experiences from graduates of our five master specialisations 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.