Course summary
Reasons to choose Kingston
- Kingston has a successful partnership with magazine publisher Haymarket, which offers placements, joint projects and job opportunities.
- You will produce an online and print magazine. For the last three years it has been shortlisted for, and/ or won, the national Student Publication Awards.
- Our popular design classes will cover professional training in both InDesign and Photoshop. You will produce video journalism and podcasts as well as having access to the new media lab at our Knights Park campus and the new library’s dedicated magazines/journals area.
- Creating Magazines: Content and Context
- Feature Writing
- Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry
Modules
Example modules: Creating Magazines: Content and Context; Feature Writing; Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry. For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.
Assessment method
Assessment typically comprises exams and coursework (such as essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation). The approximate percentage for how you will be assessed on this course is as follows, though depends to some extent on the optional modules you choose. Type of assessment: Coursework: 92% Exams: 8%
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Periodicals Training Council
Entry requirements
We normally expect candidates to have: a 2:1 or above honours degree or equivalent in an essay-writing subject, demonstrating high standards of literacy; and/or evidence of substantial and demonstrable professional commitment to journalism.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £17700 | Year 1 |
| England | £10900 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £10900 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £10900 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £10900 | Year 1 |
| International | £17700 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Please visit the course provider webpage for further information regarding additional course costs.
Provider information
Kingston University
River House
53-57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ