Bachelor of Media and Communication
From our 24-hour news cycle and endless streaming services to social media posts building brands and inspiring social change, media and communication connect every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Being able to make media and understand its role in culture and society opens doors to a wide range of exciting careers.
Our island campus of Tasmania is the start of your journey. The Media School is uniquely co-located with leading media organisations in Hobart. You will bump shoulders and share facilities with practitioners from news, communications and other screen organisations. Outside, you’re a short walk from Parliament House, the courts, museums, galleries and performance spaces, and Hobart’s docks, which are the world’s scientific gateway to Antarctica.
From day one, you will begin building a professional portfolio. You will get your hands on industry-standard equipment and be encouraged to take risks and learn from experience with the support of industry practitioners and lecturers. Our degree provides several units to design and produce projects, such as documentaries, podcasts or brand communication so you graduate with a portfolio of work to show future employers.
Behind-the-scenes, our teaching staff are pursuing world-leading research in areas, including environmental communication, and working as award-winning broadcasters, journalists and filmmakers. Through these connections, you can meet with visiting thought-leaders through The Media School Seminar Series or find the perfect industry placement.
Through access to exclusive creative collaborations with Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre and Performance students you will build close creative networks, test working relationships, and leverage your accomplishments to generate future opportunities. Find yourself working with Tasmania’s unique festival scene, creatively solving real client briefs, or soaking up inspiration together on a field trip overseas.
Media and communications graduates are sought by many industries looking for people to tell their stories and communicate their ideas. Your degree has the added flexibility to choose units from across the University, so you can develop complementary skills in creative writing, music, photography, design, and marketing or explore enhance your understanding in international relations and politics, or the blue and green sciences.
Campus Information
Hobart
The University of Tasmania's Sandy Bay campus is in the beachside suburb of Sandy Bay, five minutes' drive south of the city centre. This scenic campus is close to shops, transport, accommodation, entertainment and services and is just a short walk from the Hobart CBD.
Intakes
- Feb
- July
Application Processing Time in Days: 30
Application Process
Minimum English Language Requirements
| English Level Description | IELTS (1.0 -9.0) | TOEFL IBT (0-120) | TOEFL CBT (0-300) | PTE (10-90) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expert | 9 | 120 | 297-300 | 86-90 | |
| Very Good | 8.5 | 115-119 | 280-293 | 83-86 | |
| Very Good | 8 | 110-114 | 270-280 | 79-83 | |
| Good | 7.5 | 102-109 | 253-267 | 73-79 | |
| Good | 7 | 94-101 | 240-253 | 65-73 | |
| Competent | 6.5 | 79-93 | 213-233 | 58-65 | |
| Competent | 6 | 60-78 | 170-210 | 50-58 | |
| Modest | 5.5 | 46-59 | 133-210 | 43-50 | |
| Modest | 5 | 35-45 | 107-133 | 36-43 | |
| Limited | 4 | 32-34 | 97-103 | 30-36 | |
| Extremely Limited | < 4 | < 31 | < 93 | < 30 |
Job Opportunity Potential
We provide more than a great place to work. Our people enjoy a wide variety of benefits and services.
- Generous remuneration, including up to 17% superannuation
- Substantial paid leave entitlements including parental leave (up to 26 weeks paid with shared parental care)
- Flexible work arrangements
- Salary packaging options
- Professional development
- Study Leave for academic staff
- Employee Assistance Program
- An array of fitness, health insurance, car hire, accommodation, and other staff discounts.
Our Statement of Values subscribes to the fundamental values of honesty, integrity, responsibility, trust and trustworthiness, respect and self-respect, and fairness and justice. We bring these values to life by our individual and collective commitment to:
- creating and serving shared purpose
- nurturing a vital and sustainable community
- focusing on opportunity
- working from the strength diversity brings
- collaborating in ways that helps us be the best we can.
As a member of the University of Tasmania community your employment brings you to a workplace that attracts, develops and retains a diverse group of people.
Our commitment is to enable and encourage inclusive workforce practices that allow our people to achieve work, personal, family and relationship goals.
At the University of Tasmania, we foster diversity and inclusion reflective of the broader community, and offer a range of networks, supports and incentives to bring about a truly inclusive workplace culture.
Our workplace vision is to:
allow our inclusive culture to guide how we build our teams, cultivate our leaders and create a workplace that is richly diverse
ensure that our people feel encouraged and enabled to bring their whole selves to our workplaces
and for our communities to come together in ways that empower connection, learning, belonging and growth.
PSW Opportunity
Post Study Work Steam Renames to Post Higher Education Work Steam.
- Bachelor degree holders including honours can get upto 2 years of post study stay
- Master by course work and extended (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 2 years
- Masters by research (with a duration exceeding 2 years) and PhD holder can stay upto 3 years
- The Maximum eligible age to apply for PSW will be reduced to 35 years of age from 50 years of age for all applicants
Due to the Australian Indian Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement signed by the 2 countries, according to which:
- Indian students completing bachelor degree including honours can stay upto 2 years
- Bachelor degree with First class honours in STEM including ICT can stay upto 3 years
- Masters by coursework in extended researched (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 3 years
- PhD students can stay upto 4 years
Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria
India CBSE, All India Senior School Certificate, or CISCE Indian School Certificate
65% average score from the 4 best academic subjects
India Accepted State Boards of Education (may vary per state)
65% average score from the 4 best academic subjects
India Punjab and Haryana State Boards of Education
80% average score from the 4 best academic subjects
Advanced Diploma in Applied Science (Marine Engineering)
Advanced Diploma in Applied Science (Nautical Science)
- IELTS (Academic) Score 5.5 (no individual band less than 5.0)
- TOEFL (iBT) 46 (no skill below 10)
- PTE Academic 42 with no score lower than 36
- English for Academic Purposes 1 - 60% (no individual score less than 50%)
- Cambridge B2 First 162 with no less than 154 in any skill
Applied Science (Professional Honours in Conservation Management)
Applied Science (Professional Honours in Environmental Geospatial Science)
Biomedicine
Laws
Medical Research with Honours
Natural Environments and Conservation and Master of Protected Area Conservation (double degree)
Nutrition Science
Pharmacy with Honours
Psychological Science
Psychological Science with Honours
- IELTS (Academic) Score 6.5 (no individual band less than 6.0)
- TOEFL (iBT) 88 (no skill below: Reading 16; Listening 16; Speaking 18; Writing 22)
- PTE Academic 58 with no score lower than 50
- English for Academic Purposes 2 - 65% (no individual score less than 60%)
- Cambridge English C1 Advanced 176 with no less than 169 in any skill
Ageing Studies and Services
Biomedicine and Master of Laboratory Medicine (double degree)
Dementia Care
- IELTS (Academic) Score 6.5 (no individual band less than 6.5)
- TOEFL (iBT) 88 (no skill below: Reading 21; Listening 21; Speaking 21; Writing 25)
- PTE Academic 58 with no score lower than 58
- English for Academic Purposes 2 - 65% (no individual score less than 65%)
- Cambridge English C1 Advanced 176 with no less than 176 in any skill
Social Work
- IELTS (Academic) Score 7.0 (no individual band less than 7.0) – no other equivalencies will be accepted. Applicants will be required to meet this requirement prior to commencing a pathway into their Social Work program.
- Exercise and Sport Science
- IELTS (Academic) Score 7.0 (no individual band less than 7.0)
- TOEFL(iBT) 100 (no skill below: Reading 25; Listening 25; Speaking 23; Writing 27)
- PTE Academic 65 with no score lower than 65
- English for Academic Purposes 2 - 70% (no individual score less than 70%)
- Cambridge English C1 Advanced 185 with no less than185 in any skill
Medical Science and Medicine
- IELTS (Academic) Score 7.0 (no individual band less than 7.0)
- TOEFL(iBT) 100 (no skill below: Reading 25; Listening 25; Speaking 23; Writing 27)
- PTE Academic 65 with no score lower than 65
- English for Academic Purposes 2 - 70% (no individual score less than 70%)
Nursing
- IELTS (Academic) Score 7.0 (no individual band less than 7.0)
- TOEFL(iBT) 94 (no skill below: Reading 24; Listening 24; Speaking 23; Writing 27)
- PTE Academic 65 with no score lower than 65
- OET with a minimum score of B in each of the four components (listening, reading, writing and speaking)
Education
- IELTS (Academic) Score 7.5 (no individual band for listening and speaking less than 8.0, and writing and reading no less than 7.0)
- English for Academic Purposes 2 - 75% (no individual score for listening and speaking less than 80%, and writing and reading no less than 70%)
- Course Code: 102912M
- Course Type: Full Time
- Course Level: Bachelors/UG Degree
- Duration: 03 Year
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Total Tuition Fee:
114909 AUD
Average Cost of Living: 29710 AUD /year
Application Fee: N/A
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