Media Production BA (Hons)
Get practical training in TV and radio. Pitch to industry professionals and go live on air in our award-winning radio station. Join a course which best prepares you for a career in the industry.
Career ready
This degree prepares you for careers in TV, radio, video, and new media industries. Your training in communication, teamwork, and creativity will be highly relevant to roles in many different businesses and in the public sector.
Recent graduates from Sunderland have gained jobs with employers such as the BBC, Radio 1, Channel 4, Sky TV, Capital North East, I Daniel Blake, MTV, and professional production companies.
You could also choose to continue your studies with a master's degree, such as MA Radio, Audio and Podcasting or MA Media Production (Film and Television).
Work experience
We actively encourage you to gain relevant work experience while at university. During every year of your course, you'll be guided and encouraged to gain meaningful experience that'll fit around your studies.
You'll undertake a number of practice modules throughout your course, which can include live briefs from clients from outside the University.
External links
We frequently invite guest speakers to run workshops and masterclasses, allowing you to relate your learning to real-life experience. Recently, this has included our visiting professors Dr Alex Connock, Fellow in Marketing at Oxford University; Emmy award winner, David Quantick; and Nick Smith, Executive Vice President at All3Media.
We encourage you to take part in competitions; our students have won awards from organisations such as the Royal Television Society.
Throughout your studies, you’ll be guided and supported by our experts, all of whom are working or researching in media. You’ll study alongside scriptwriters, film makers, radio producers, presenters, and independent film producers who'll share their experience and encourage you to build your network.
Join our award winners
Our staff and students consistently win big at the Royal Television Awards.
RTS winners 2020
- Comedy and Entertainment: 72
- Drama: Quite By Chance
- Factual: Two Monkeys
- Craft – Production Design: Quite by Chance
- Craft – Camera: 72
- Craft – Editing: Freedom
RTS winners 2019
- Comedy and Entertainment: Rebel Rebel
- Factual: NEPK – North East Parkour
- Craft – Editing: NEPK – North East Parkour
Creative Industries Week
Creative Industries Week gives everyone studying Arts and Creative Industries courses the opportunity to participate in a range of projects, workshops, talks, industry visits, and career events. This exciting week encourages interdisciplinary working and broadens your experience to build your confidence and help develop your career path.
Offering a change of pace from the usual class timetable, Creative Industries Week gives you a chance to consider career options, network with staff and students from different courses, and get a wider view of the creative industries. We encourage you to attend as many activities as possible and try something new.
Industry-relevant teaching
BA Media Production is accredited by ScreenSkills who awards the quality mark of the Tick to practice-based degree courses that most effectively provide students with the skills and knowledge required by employers in the screen industries.
For employers, the Tick signposts work-ready graduates and apprentices from creative courses that have proven to understand and have links with the screen industry.
Graduates from Tick courses have privileged access to Trainee Finder, a service that matches trainees with companies across the UK’s animation, film, games, high-end TV, and VFX industries.
Meet the students
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Media is my passion. I see it as an art form, and a voice that I can use to express myself.
Alex Hoey
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My career has progressed massively - I am now a Videographer and Brand Development Specialist.
Caitlin Ward
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The University of Sunderland is definitely a happy place!
Jordan North
