Buzz over media studies

Updated on: Thursday, June 11, 2009

Kolkata: Mass communication, journalism and film studies have emerged as the most sought after subjects after class XII.

'Media plays a very important role in determining people's belief. It is perceived as a glamourous profession. There is a belief that the different media, specially television, have access to a large number of viewers,' says Swati Gautam, faculty of mass communication and film studies in St Xavier’s College.

Asutosh College offers a bachelor’s degree course in Journalism and Mass Communication. The course received a green signal from Calcutta University in 2003. For the 35 seats, the college gets around 700 applications.
'Many students opt for the course after English honours. We keep the eligibility criteria high. Students must get 65% in aggregate and 65% in languages to seek admission,' says principal Dipak Kar. 'We teach students radio and television journalism and public relations,' faculty member Tapasi Ghosh adds.

Kar thinks students are queuing up for such courses as the number of recruiters are very high. Even IT companies recruit students for their communication department.

Shikshayatan College offers three-year undergraduate course in mass communication and journalism. Jamia Milia Islamia, Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Chennai, Indian Institute of Mass communication (IIMC) at Delhi and Dhenkanal offer diploma in journalism and television after a bachelor’s degree. Admission details of ACJ can be downloaded from www.asianmedia.org.

A written examination is conducted at various centres, followed by a personal interview. The college also offers placements. Students planning to apply for IIMC can find details on www.iimc.nic

Jamia Milia offers a Masters in mass comm (50 seats), convergent journalism (20 seats), and one-year diploma courses in development communication (40 seats), broadcast system maintenance (20 seats), still photography and visual communication (20 seats) and graphics and animation (20 seats)

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