Academic structure, teaching phases, and curriculum for Bachelor's Media at Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
B.A. Media & Communication
English for lectures, studio production, workshops and assessment.
Tuition fee
$2,750
Estimated hostel fee with food
Check with university
Teaching phases
Year 1 - foundations
Communication theory and practice, media laws and ethics, fundamentals of internet and new media, and introductory production work.
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Years 2 and 3 - skills and professional application
Advertising and public relations, integrated marketing communication, photojournalism, scripting for broadcast media, video editing and compositing, film techniques, media research, plus internships and capstone projects.
Optional Year 4 - honours
Advanced research and specialised study for students with a cumulative grade point average of 7.5 or above across the first six semesters, leading to the B.A. (Hons) award.
Tuition fee and hostel estimate
Year-wise cost data is not currently published for this program.
Training & support
Practical training & industry exposure
Practical training is organised institute by institute rather than centrally. The Computer Science and Engineering department at Manipal Institute of Technology names Monash University and the Australian National University as two-plus-two dual-degree partners and State University of New York, Binghamton for a 3.5-plus-1.5 pathway, and lists teaching and research tie-ups with IBM, Cisco, Samsung, Schneider Electric, the Data Security Council of India, the Information Sharing and Analysis Center and Infosys Springboard. The mechanical engineering department runs AI labs under Intel Unnati and lists recruiters including Bosch, Daimler India, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, L&T, Maruti Suzuki, Volvo, Honeywell and Goldman Sachs. In MAHE's 2025 NIRF submission to the Ministry of Education, 1,650 of the 2,832 students who graduated from four-year undergraduate programmes in 2023-24 were placed, 591 went on to higher studies and the median annual salary of placed graduates was INR 800,000. Manipal Institute of Communication runs a newsroom set-up, podcast studios, digital editing suites and film screening rooms, and places students in internships with media houses, PR firms and advertising agencies. The Bachelor of Physiotherapy programme is taught with access to hospital facilities on the same campus for supervised clinical practice, followed by a compulsory internship after the coursework years.
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