Digital Media and Culture BA (Hons)
King's College London
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Explore how digital media and culture is changing the way we understand the past, experience the present and anticipate the future. Our Digital Media and Culture BA will provide you with critical insight into the social, political and economic challenges and opportunities brought about by digital technologies. Topics include digital politics, data science, social media, AI, the internet, and much more. This is the only single honours degree in digital culture and internet studies taught by a ...Read more

Explore how digital media and culture is changing the way we understand the past, experience the present and anticipate the future. Our Digital Media and Culture BA will provide you with critical insight into the social, political and economic challenges and opportunities brought about by digital technologies. Topics include digital politics, data science, social media, AI, the internet, and much more. This is the only single honours degree in digital culture and internet studies taught by a dedicated team in a unique location in central London.


Key benefits

- Insight into how individuals, companies, governments, and other institutions are being transformed by social media, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital management techniques and practices, data journalism, digital advertising, analytics, visualisations, and more.- Provides digital research methods training, with no pre-existing understanding of computing or programming needed.- Recognised as creating world leading research into digital media and culture.- Friendly and supportive learning environment.- Central location offers exciting possibilities for further access to digital cultures, organisations, and companies, as well as cultural institutions.- Provides a grounding for careers in all aspects of digital culture, including the creative industries such as advertising, journalism, publishing, digital curation and management.Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/digital-culture-ba

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Computer Science
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CUG Ranking
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24th
Media Studies
Drop-out rate
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Media Studies graduate salary at this uni
£20,000
UK Media Studies graduate salary
£19,000
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Nadirah
10 Feb 23

The impact of covid was the worst aspect of my university experience. Also many societies I have paid to join are so disorganized and also have yet to reach out to me. I wasted a..Read more

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Entry requirements

Scottish Advanced Higher:

AB Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

D:33,M:12,P:0 Grades / Points required

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

35 Grades / Points required

Must be combined with three Scottish Highers. We do not count the Higher and Advanced Higher in the same subject

Access to Social Sciences/Humanities/Media (or similar subject).

35 points overall or an aggregate score of 17 from three Higher Levels. Note: The total point score of 35 includes TOK/EE.

Popular A-level subjects

Media Studies

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£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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Students from Wales

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King's College London
Strand, London London City Of Westminster WC2R 2LS United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Temple  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: Charing Cross   0.2 miles away
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