Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Undertake communication studies with an emphasis on digital innovation, industry placements and connections. Take advantage of rising demand for digital media skills.

Digital media is rapidly changing technology, business, and legal landscapes. The Digital Media major will help you stay ahead in this dynamic environment, whether your goal is to be a digital disruptor/entrepreneur, digital content creator, or leading edge analyst in the world of big data.

This course lets you combine communication studies with an emphasis on digital innovation, practical skills, and industry placements and connections.

This one-of-a-kind course is your roadmap through the complexities of global entertainment.

Highlights

• Combine communication studies with an emphasis on digital innovation, practical skills, and industry placements and connections.
• Graduate with specialist knowledge in a growth area, and understand the function and influence of the media industry, as well as develop skills that are transferable across a range of industries.
• Engage with the local media sector while building your professional networks.

QUT is a global leader in the creative industries. Choose a combination of study areas to suit your creative interests and aspirations, and help you develop your creative niche.

Problem solving, critical thinking and innovation are now the top three skills employers look for and these vital skills can be applied to a wide range of commercial organisations. The first degree of its kind, our Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI) allows you to develop your own creative niche by providing diverse knowledge, creativity and practical skills across a range of selected creative disciplines.

The Bachelor of Creative Industries can help you to develop your own creative niche across a range of majors, with the agility you need to keep creating, adapting and innovating as the world continues to evolve.

Highlights

• Build a unique creative career that taps into your passions and aspirations.
• Prepare to turn creative employment and entrepreneurial opportunities into real career outcomes.
• Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work.
• Choose from one of eight first majors to develop your creative thinking and innovation.
• Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest, with some majors available in online study mode.

If having the flexibility to work across many industries appeals to you, a career in digital communication may be an excellent fit. You will learn new skills that are applicable to various media forms, including social media, data analytics, artificial intelligence and visualisation.

Digital transformation is impacting global media and communication production, distribution and consumption at unprecedented levels. This data and automation driven disruption is increasingly delivering content across personal mobile devices, placing pressure on traditional institutions and giving rise to new and emerging forms of content production and distribution.

The Master of Digital Communication develops future-focused specialised skills and advanced knowledge in digital communication as well as an applied understanding of the digital creative economy and how digital platforms are transforming the global media environment.

Highlights

• The QUT School of Communication is ranked as Australia’s leading school for communication and media studies, and among the top schools in the world.  QUT Media and Communication is ranked 1st in Australia and 16th in the world in the 2021 QS World University rankings.  
• Analyse and create data-driven compelling stories via diverse social media platforms ( Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WeChat).
• Develop a deep understanding of the digital creative economy and how platforms and artificial intelligence are transforming the media and communication environment.
• Learn how to use and build tools to deliver advanced data visualisation and analysis of audience behaviour.
• Design, implement and evaluate a research project that integrates and applies the advanced knowledge and skills developed across the course with a scholarly academic or industry focus.

• Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest, with some majors available in online study mode.

Develop expertise to effectively translate business strategies into information technology solutions.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of structured methods and technologies for increasing the operational excellence of organisations. Recent studies report that BPM has become a top priority across all industries, and professionals who can combine managerial and IT skills to enhance process performance are in high demand. The required skills cover strategic alignment, governance, process modelling, process redesign, process automation, process-oriented data mining and process innovation. 

QUT’s outstanding research credibility in BPM has influenced the design of the Master of Business Process Management. It reflects the requirements of the industry’s needs for business process expertise and prepares graduates for an exciting BPM career.

Highlights

• This course will suit you if you hold an undergraduate degree in either information technology or business.
• Develop the skills and knowledge to translate business strategies into information technology solutions.
• Study business process management, process analytics, process automation, enterprise systems, IT consulting, enterprise architecture, and information management with business processes. 
• Prepares you for a career as a business process management consultant, senior business analyst, data and process scientist, senior process intelligence consultant, enterprise architect, process automation specialist, digital transformation strategist or chief information officer.
• Complete in 1.5 years full-time or 3 years part-time.

• Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest, with some majors available in online study mode.

Combine business with games and interactive environments for a competitive advantage. Work in roles such as producer, project manager, content manager or marketer.

This double degree gives you the opportunity to apply your business skills within the exciting industry of digital environments and electronic games. You will not only expand your business skills but also your creative skills through the development of digital environments and other forms of interactive media. You will learn to apply your critical creative thinking to identify issues and solve problems related to various technical, creative and cultural aspects of games development. Creativity and innovation are strong skills to have in business.

Having a business background gives you a competitive advantage over other games and interactive entertainment graduates as it gives you the knowledge of how business works. You will understand issues related to people and process management in games development and demonstrate the ability to be an effective leader and innovator. You will develop lifelong skills to enable you to continuously improve games and interactive entertainment.

In the business component of this double degree, you will gain broad-based business knowledge and skills that will prepare you for any business role, along with the specialist skill and knowledge in your choice of business major in accountancy, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

In the games and interactive environments component, you will have the opportunity to develop your creative skills in the area of your chosen major in either animation, game design or software technologies. In your final year you will participate in a major group project to produce a significant piece of work using PC, mobile devices, consoles or virtual reality.

Highlights

• Gain a competitive advantage over other games and interactive environments graduates with highly developed business knowledge.
• Complete 2 separate degrees in 4 years full-time.
• Be a part of Queensland’s leading video game industry, responsible for titles such as Hellboy and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
• Specialise in animation, digital media, game design or software technologies
• Major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or public relations.