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The Media Management graduate program offers you the advanced tools, practical experience, and professional network you need to succeed as a leader in today's rapidly evolving media industries. Whether you want to advance your media career or launch a new enterprise, our faculty of industry experts provides a solid foundation in the latest practices and concepts for managing traditional and emergent media organizations and platforms.
Keeping your knowledge and skills up-to-date as markets change and technologies advance is critical to your professional success. The Media Management curriculum prepares you with the insights and strategies needed for the rapidly evolving media industry. You can plan in-depth study in one or more of the subject areas listed below, sample a variety of subjects and approaches, or both. You also have the option of completing a graduate minor as part of your course of study.
Media Management graduates pursue their passions in many areas, including production, marketing, and business management for television, film, radio, and digital media; branding, marketing, and advertising; and media administration for commercial and nonprofit organizations. Many students advance their careers even before they graduate, participating in internships at leading media companies and in programs such as TIDAL, NBC News, CNN, BET, Sony Music Entertainment, and The Late Show on CBS.
Ninety-seven percent of 2018 graduates were employed within 12 months of graduating.
Research is integral to the Parsons learning experience, and students and faculty work together to challenge existing paradigms and advance emerging scholarship and practice. Explore the thematic research laboratories housed at Parsons and throughout The New School.
Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, you gain marketable problem-solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and creative industries.
New York City’s thriving creative industry and cultural institutions are part of your Parsons education. Our Career Services Office is enmeshed in the art and design industries and can help you advance your career with industry-oriented internships.
Funds are earmarked for graduate travel, research, and work to support your study. Opportunities include paid teaching assistantships, research fellowships and assistantships (including ones offered throughout The New School), ample student employment, and other grants available to U.S. domestic and international students alike.
Enjoy access to extensive resources including New School libraries, computer labs, archives, and studios, along with Parsons’ state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to support your creative and academic growth.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
