Integrated Foundation with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Media and Communication

A four year route opening with a foundation year, covering academic and media fundamentals before three years of media and communication at degree level.

Broad media degrees reward students who specialise early, so use the foundation year to work out which part of the field genuinely interests you.

Integrated Foundation with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Media and Communication is taught at the Birmingham City University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the media and communication foundation route is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the media and communication foundation route ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the media and communication foundation route you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the media and communication foundation route as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the media and communication foundation route cannot support a family move.

Entry to Integrated Foundation with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Media and Communication is Class 12 or equivalent at 50 percent or above. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the media and communication foundation route is recorded at GBP 18,570 a year. BCU charges no application fee, so applying for the media and communication foundation route costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the media and communication foundation route lists three September entry windows, in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Apply Study Visa manages the the media and communication foundation route application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.