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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    Northampton Square

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    30-SEP-24

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

Key information

Learn about the exciting and fast-moving publishing industry with the Publishing MA from City. From research-led assignments to digital content development, we will give you an extensive range of modern skills and knowledge required to succeed in this fascinating and constantly changing global industry.

Course overview

Benefits of this course

London is the global heart of the publishing industry, and this MA makes the most of its London location to bring you a commercially and professionally applied programme.

You will learn directly from past and present industry professionals how publishing is continuing to evolve alongside the digital revolution.

Our programme gives you an applied understanding of how physical and digital texts are conceived, developed and marketed.

This MA looks at the different sectors of the publishing industry, including commercial fiction and non-fiction publishing, children’s publishing, education and academic publishing.

Who is this course for?

If you recognise that global publishing is undergoing dramatic change and you want to gain professionally relevant skills, our programme is ideal.

Your first degree might be from the humanities or social sciences, and you could be a new graduate or have an amount of work experience.

We equip you with the knowledge and skills needed by the next generation of publishers.

Career

Our Publishing MA graduates develop careers in a variety of organisations, and most secure a publishing role within months of graduating.

This selection of positions secured by our recent Publishing MA graduates shows the scope of potential global careers:

  • Trainee, Foreign Language Publishing Co, Shanghai
  • Editorial Business Analyst, Condé Nast Japan
  • Publicist, Hachette New Zealand
  • Magazine Publishing, Beijing
  • Digital Marketing Executive, Bloomsbury
  • Rights Assistant, Fiction, Paris
  • Picture Researcher, Hodder
  • Marketing, Random House
  • Editorial, Production Assistant and Rights Assistants, Children’s Publishing
  • Contracts Assistant, Academic Publishing.

Internships

We encourage you to undertake an optional work internship during your time here. An internship can give you an essential step towards your first career move.

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 20,950per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

City, University of London

  • University League Table

    42nd

  • Campus address

    City, University of London, Northampton Square, City of London, EC1V 0HB, England

Nearly all degrees offer the opportunity of a work placement, a clinical placement or time studying abroad. Many offer professional accreditation.
A welcoming and diverse community with buddy schemes, student counselling, Students' Union with active student societies, and an award-winning student centre.
Partnerships with more than 100 leading institutions around the world bring exciting opportunities to study abroad and gain international work experience.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    16th out of 95 15

  • Entry standards

    / Max 210
    129 62%

    32nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    84.0 84%

    3rd

    2
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.87 77%

    58th

    26

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