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Digital Media with Foundation Year at Birkbeck, University of London - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Birkbeck, University of London has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

This BA Digital Media is ideal if you are keen to gain knowledge and skills of the most recent advances relating to digital media and culture: from wearable technologies and artificial intelligence, to social media influencers and algorithmic bias. Why choose this course?

  • This course gives you the opportunity to follow your interests and career aspirations pursuing the subject of digital media more deeply or specialising further on a pathway related to either culture, creative practice, marketing or business analytics.
  • Whether you study towards the BA Digital Media or one of its pathways, you will develop valuable practical skills and broad yet highly transferable knowledge relating to digital media, and suited to the twenty-first-century context.
  • You will not only explore digital media theories with leading scholars and practitioners, but also learn how to become a digital media professional.
What you will learn You can study towards a BA Digital Media or follow a pathway of particular modules to finish with one of the following awards:
  • BA Digital Media and Culture
  • BA Digital Media and Creative Practice
  • BA Digital Media with Marketing
  • BA Digital Media with Business Analytics
How you will learn You will be taught in highly interactive classes with students from different walks of life who bring together interesting professional working experiences and different cultural and educational backgrounds. You will engage in lectures, seminars and practical workshops where you can experiment across multiple arts and media forms, devices and platforms to gain an essential portfolio of skills needed for contemporary media and creative work. These classes are complemented by guest lectures. This course is available to study full- or part-time. Classes take place in the evening. Foundation Year If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree. Highlights
  • In media and cultural studies, Birkbeck fosters an especially research-intensive environment. We offer an extensive portfolio of internationally respected courses that span a variety of academic disciplines and engage with the latest ideas and techniques in journalism, media and cultural theory, arts policy and management, film and television studies, creative marketing, digital culture and East Asian cultural studies.
  • Attend our dynamic programme of seminars, events and guest lectures organised by affiliated research centres and networks.
  • Our Bloomsbury campus includes facilities such as the award-winning Birkbeck Cinema, the Peltz Gallery, and computer labs equipped with video editing, print layout and web design software packages.
  • Birkbeck was ranked as one of the top four universities in the UK for its Art and Design research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
Careers and employability On successfully completing this digital media course, you will have gained an array of valuable transferable skills including:
  • the ability to work as part of a team
  • high-level oral and written communication skills in English
  • research skills
  • skills in evaluating and assessing types of information
  • the ability to present yourself and an argument
  • transferable applied knowledge in working with digital media devices, software and platforms.
Our graduates go on to work directly in the media or the cultural and creative industries, for example in digital design and management, film and television, curatorial practice, news media, online publishing, magazines, trade publications or public relations. Others deploy their skills and knowledge in fields such as cultural and educational institutions, public policy or professional communications.

Modules

For information about course structure and the modules you will be studying, please visit Birkbeck’s online prospectus.

Assessment method

Depending on the module, assessment includes essays, professional writing such as marketing plans and social media strategies, digital media design production and experimentation such as in videoing, blogging, podcasting and web design.

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

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Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

International applicants

If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests. We also accept other English language tests.

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

Student Outcomes

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There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
International £18060 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

Students are charged a tuition fee in each year of their course. Tuition fees for students continuing on their course in following years may be subject to annual inflationary increases.
Digital Media with Foundation Year at Birkbeck, University of London - UCAS