3 Best Communication Master of Science (MSc) Degree Programs in Sweden for 2024

The program’s focus on leadership, democracy, and human rights aims to prepare tomorrow’s researchers, social narrators, and decision-makers for contributing responsibly and insightfully to the development and regulation of the media landscape, based on democratic ideals and principles, regardless of nationality and geographical considerations. The program focuses on an understanding of the increasingly important role and growing impact of the media as regards public service announcements, political communication, cultural expression, and social mobilization. The students are provided with a theoretical understanding, analytical tools, and strategic competence, all of which enable them to not only understand, but to become active agents in, media development that affects democracy, human rights, and regulation of the media in an international context. The program is highly international, using case studies and course reading taken from a broad international context, and attracting students from all over the world. The international degree awarded upon completion of the entire program is a Master of Arts (120 credits) in Media and Communications. The diploma and the degree certificate are issued in Swedish and English and are accompanied by a diploma supplement in English.

The MSc in Strategic Communication is a two-year interdisciplinary Master's programme. The programme provides theory, concepts and skills to operate and successfully work with strategic communication in international environments. You will learn how communication is central for organisations of various kinds and how communication can be understood and used to achieve strategic goals and to ensure sustainable organisations. The programme provides students with an understanding of strategic communication and the closely related fields of organisational communication, public relations and brand communication. On completion of the programme, our graduates have the necessary skills for a career in communication as well as for research.

This international Master’s programme emphases critical approaches to social and cultural issues in media and communications. Taught in Lund at a high-ranking research-led department, our courses focus on contemporary debates about knowledge, power and social relations. We aim to broaden students’ understanding of global media structures and processes by tackling issues and theories related to media engagement, democracy and cultural citizenship, media industries and creativity, gender, health and society, audiences, popular culture and everyday life; providing students with theoretical and empirical tools. Coming from a range of backgrounds, our students gain the critical skills necessary to evaluate and understand media in a range of professional and private sphere research-led careers.