Situated in a purpose-designed building in the heart of vibrant Melbourne, this degree accesses state-of-the-art learning facilities. You’ll learn to analyse media in a broad historical and cultural context, as well as encourage critical engagement and innovation across a range of media platforms.

Ultimately the degree will provide you with a broad knowledge of a wide range of media including traditional and emerging forms. It will also provide skills and knowledge that will help you to determine your specific career directions and to facilitate lifelong learning.

This degree produces critically informed contemporary media professionals who are creative and multi-skilled communicators. Our graduates are able to deliver innovative content for a wide range of existing and new platforms including film, television and radio, social and mobile media, and the web.

Our graduates are fluent with technology and the evolving media environment and are creative thinkers and problem-solvers employed across a wide range of industry sectors. Industries that degree graduates have moved into include film and television, radio, screen culture, internet and mobile media production, government and education.

RMIT Media graduates can be found throughout the media industries within Australia and internationally. They find work in the film and television industry, public and commercial radio, internet and mobile media, screen culture, social media, journalism, marketing, publishing, academia, the music and games industries and the government sector. Many also go on to postgraduate study.

As a graduate you'll have an edge in being multi-skilled, global in outlook and capable of working in a variety of media forms and professional contexts.

Studying the media degree will provide you with the skills and knowledge to work in a broad range of roles and industries. Job opportunities for our graduates have increased due to technological and societal changes. 

Film and television: directors, producers, directors of photography, screenwriters, camera operators, sound recordists, sound and picture editors, post-production supervisors, production managers, first assistant directors, art directors, casting agents, marketers, publicists, video artists.

Radio: presenters, producers, programmers, station managers, studio directors, journalists, editors - for commercial, government or community broadcasters.

Screen culture: film festival directors, curators, project managers, film and TV critics, distributors, venue coordinators.

Internet, mobile media: website developers, cross-platform content developers, social media producers, content authors, writers, managers, publishers, media sellers and buyers.