Communication, Media and Popular Music
University of LiverpoolLiverpool, United Kingdom
Course overview
Whether you want to work in Communication, Media or Popular Music, research their impact or simply understand more about our relationship with these areas, this programme provides a thorough introduction with plenty of opportunities to develop specialist skills. There is scope for specialisation within a coherent and integrated framework that ensures academic progression, allows for increasing specialisation year on year, and emphasises synergies between the disciplines. Study in a department currently ranked within the world top 75 and 5thin the UK for Communication (Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 2025).
The Communication and Media side of the programme examines how media shape our understanding of what we know and what we consume. A range of optional modules selected to emphasise synergies between communication, media and popular music, allow students to pursue their own interests and focus on particular media and communication forms. The Popular Music side of the programme provides students with a comparative understanding of Western Popular Music’s varied and diverse significance in a range of different cultural contexts, and caters for both students who would like to concentrate on more historical and theoretical study and those who would like to engage with more practical studies.
This programme can also be studied over four years with the third year spent on a relevant, salaried work placement. Students can transfer to theYear in Industry version of the programmeafter their first year if they wish.
Key highlights
- Department ranked world top 75 and 5th in UK for Communication
- Optional four-year route with a salaried third-year work placement
- Transfer to Year in Industry version possible after first year
- Optional modules linking communication, media and popular music
- Choose historical and theoretical or more practical popular music study
- Examines how media shape what we know and consume
Entry requirements
- A-level: ABB — with EPQ
- A-level: BBB — to include with A in the EPQ; with EPQ
- GCSE: 4/C — to include English, Mathematics
- BTEC: DDM — application on its merits and may make offers
- International Baccalaureate: 32 — overall with no score less t
- Irish Leaving Certificate — H1, H1, H2, H2
- Scottish Advanced Highers: ABB — Irish Leaving Certificate: H1, H1, H2, H2 Scottish Higher/Advanced Higher: ABB in Advanced Highers, combinations of Advanced Highers and Scottish Highers are welcome Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced: B in the Welsh Baccalaur…
- A-level: AB — …welcome Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced: B in the Welsh Baccalaureate, plus AB at A level.
Scholarships
Bridge House College Nigeria Law Scholarships
Value: £2,000
Up to £2,000Kaplan Digital Pathways Excellence Scholarship
Kaplan Digital Pathways Foundation Certificate, will receive a £5,000 tuition fee reduction for the first year of study.
Up to £5,000Liverpool Excellence Scholarship for Undergraduates
If you’re an international undergraduate student who hasn’t studied with us before, you could be eligible for a scholarship offering a tuition fee discount of £7,500.
Up to £7,500Sport Liverpool Performance Programme
A very limited number of grants, worth up to £3,500, are available through the High Performance Athlete Programme.
University of Liverpool Graduate Association Hong Kong and Tung Undergraduate Scholarships
The University of Liverpool Graduate Association Hong Kong undergraduate scholarships are worth £10,000 per year for three years and are awarded to students originating from Hong Kong.
Up to £10,000University of Liverpool International College Excellence Scholarship
£5,000 tuition fee reduction for the first year of study.
Up to £5,000
Careers this course leads to
- Media researcher
- Communications officer
- Music industry assistant
- Public relations officer
- Journalist
- Digital content producer
Cost of study
UK/Home: Full-time place, per year - £9,790; Year in industry: £1,955; Year abroad: £1,465 | International: Full-time place, per year - £27,000; Year in industry: £1,955; Year abroad: £13,500
Admission
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