Deadline:
January 10, 2025
Location(s)
Australia Chile China Czech Republic Denmark Germany Lebanon Netherlands South Africa United Kingdom United States of America
Sydney, Santiago, Aarhus, København, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, Swansea, Berkeley, Cape Town, Shanghai
Overview
The Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Journalism, Media and Globalisation welcomes applications from graduate students around the world. You can apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, or as a self-funded student. The Mundus Journalism Master's offers a curriculum uniquely focused on developing an analytical and critical lens on journalism, media and globalisation. Since 2005 Mundus Journalism has been connecting people and building networks of like minded peers and colleagues across the globe!
Details
We are launching an even stronger Mundus Journalism programme
Since we have now built solid foundations of infrastructure, governance and academic expertise and seen the graduation of 1000 students since 2005, the time has come for us to launch an even stronger programme.
The Mundus Consortium is welcoming a number of prestigious new universities to the programme. They will each bring new strengths and perspectives and help us put together a more comprehensive offering for our students, meaning that we can ensure that our programme remains a premium brand for all involved.
We have always built our programme according to contemporary perspectives, and we have now further refined our curricula based on extensive community feedback to ensure that Mundus Journalism graduates are the best equipped to uphold the highest possible standards for global journalism.
All of this means that our Mundus Journalism website will be under development during the next couple of months to reflect all of the ongoing changes to the new study programme. For all of those wishing to apply this year, the application requirements and deadline (10 January 2020) will follow the same procedure as in the previous call for applications, and this information is already available for you, here.
Why choose Mundus Journalism?
The Mundus Journalism study programme gives you state-of-the-art insights into the current topics within journalism, media and globalisation. The curriculum combines academic, theoretical knowledge with journalistic skills to improve your ability to analyse, interpret and understand the global changes that increasingly challenge traditional boundaries between media, politics, technology, and culture. All in all, the programme prepares you to work practically towards improving and maintaining the societal and cultural legitimacy of journalism globally.
A vibrant and international community
Join the Mundus Journalism programme to engage with peers and staff from more than 100 countries across the globe in an ambitious, interdisciplinary and multicultural environment. The Erasmus Mundus Journalism master's degree offers you a truly unique and international educational experience. At Mundus Journalism, you will study at leading universities in at least two European countries, work with top researchers in media studies, political science and journalism, and gain an outstanding professional network for life.
Customise your Mundus Journalism degree
Year 1
All students spend the first year of the master’s degree in Aarhus, Denmark studying at both Aarhus University- taught by faculty from the Department of Political Science and the Department of Information and Media Studies - and the Danish School of Media and Journalism.
To enable you to customise your studies, you will have the opportunity, in the second semester, to choose between electives or practice your journalistic skills in an approved internship. Each year, a number of students will be selected to study their second semester at one of the following universities:
- The University of California at Berkeley in USA
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- University of Technology Sydney in Australia
- Fudan University in Shanghai, China
- University of Cape Town in South Africa
- Lebanese American University in Lebanon
- University of Hamburg in Germany
Year 2
In the second year, you will be able to specialise in the area of your choice to delve into field-specific topics and strengthen your reflexive journalism skills. You can choose to study in one of the following areas of journalism:
- Totalitarianism & Transition at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic
- Business & Innovation at City, University of London in the United Kingdom
- Politics & Communication at University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands
While the specialisations in Totalitarianism & Transition & Business and Innovation offers more practical journalism training, the specialisation in Politics and Communication is more theory-oriented and focuses on substantive issues and empirical research analysing the content, production, and effects of journalism and other forms of political communication. While some of the Amsterdam courses, as well as the thesis, offer the opportunity to engage in practical journalism, this specialisation does not offer practical journalism training as such.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Requirements for admission to the Mundus Journalism programme:
A completed bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study before course start
Applicants must have completed a bachelor's degree (or the equivalent) in a relevant subject in order to be admitted to the Mundus Journalism programme. Students who have not yet graduated from their BA degree can still apply, but documentation of the bachelor's degree must be forwarded to Aarhus University by August to complete the enrolment process prior to course start in September.
Subjects within bachelor's programmes in Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences are by default considered to be relevant. Applicants who have completed other programmes, but whose qualifications are deemed by the Consortium to be relevant and adequate, may also be offered admission.
To ensure that the best candidates are admitted, the Consortium has decided to give priority to academic merit; candidates will only be admitted if they have an above-average bachelor’s degree (a minimum of an above-average class mark/GPA is expected).
IELTS band score of minimum 7,0 (if you are not a native English speaker)
The Erasmus Mundus Journalism programme is taught in English. Students must therefore be able to read academic textbooks and articles, understand lectures, take part in classroom discussions and undertake written work and exams in English. That is why we require evidence of English language proficiency from non-native speakers of English.
IELTS Requirement
We only accept the IELTS Academic test, as it reflects some of the features of academic language and assesses whether you are ready to begin studying in English language environment. The IELTS test assesses your abilities in 4 test categories: 1) listening, 2) reading, 3) writing, and 4) speaking.
The IELTS test result is reported as a score in each of the 4 test categories and as an overall band score on a scale from 1 (the lowest) to 9 (the highest). We require a band score of 7,0 and a minimum score of 6.0 for each category.
At least three months of journalistic experience
Although the programme aims to maintain and enhance high journalistic standards, this programme is theory-oriented. We ask for at least 3 months’ journalistic experience, so that the need for basic practical journalistic instruction is low. Students learn to combine academic, theoretical knowledge with journalistic skills, and to analyse, interpret and generate knowledge about the global changes that increasingly challenge traditional boundaries. Hence journalistic skills are required prior to course start.
Freelance experience is also accepted, if you can provide documentation that your work has been equivalent of three-months full-time journalism experience. In this case, please ask for a letter of reference by a professional journalist – preferably your former or current editor-in-chief. The person writing the reference should include an estimate of time.
We acknowledge that journalistic experience may take many forms. Hence "traditional" journalistic experience (composing stories for a published media outlet) is not the only accepted form of experience. Since the consortium will evaluate your application as a whole, we cannot answer questions regarding your specific experience’s sufficiency beforehand. Our best recommendation is for you to give it a shot, send us an application, and make sure to elaborate on the relevance of your experience.
Dates
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
We offer 22 Erasmus Mundus scholarships, hence, 25% will be offered admission as scholarship students, while 75% will be offered admission as self-funded students. Only applicants being superior in all categories can expect to be offered admission as scholarship students. Students who already have a 2-year MA degree cannot be granted a Mundus scholarship but can be considered for self-funded admission.
We offer two-year Category A scholarships of up to €49,000
You can be considered for a scholarship if:
- You are NOT a resident of any of the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Turkey or former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- You must comply with the 12 months rule, i.e. you cannot have carried out your main activity (studies, work, private visits, tourism, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the European Union Member States, Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein.
- You fulfil the admission requirements and selection criteria.
We offer two-year Category B scholarships of up to €40,000
You can be considered for a scholarship if:
- You ARE a resident of any of the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Turkey or former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- You are NOT a resident of any of the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Turkey or former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. BUT you have carried out your main activity (studies, work, private visits, tourism, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the European Union Member States, Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein.
- You fulfil the admission requirements and selection criteria.
Please note that you cannot receive a Category B scholarship while studying at a Mundus Journalism university in your country of residence. E.g. if you live in the Netherlands, you cannot receive a Erasmus Mundus scholarship while specialising in "Politics & Communication" at the University of Amsterdam.
We also offer Erasmus+ stipends of up to €2500
- All Mundus Journalism students, who do not receive an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, can apply for an Erasmus+ stipend for the second year of the Mundus Journalism studies. So far, all eligible students have received this stipend.
- Information and assistance on the Erasmus+ stipend will be provided at Aarhus University after course start.
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