Bachelor’s in Journalism and Mass Communication (also known as BJMC) is a three-year undergraduate degree program. This course is for students with curious minds who wish to build their careers in Journalism and mass communication. The program refines various skills like gathering, transmitting, and delivering information, writing, networking, research, analysis, interpretation, problem-solving, observation and many more.
With over 240 million newspaper circulations and 400 news channels, the field offers the student job roles as correspondent, reporters, copywriters, creative directors, editors, PR officers, PR managers, radio jockeys, video jockeys, anchors, digital media marketers and so on. BJMC degree holders can work for various government and private sectors, including advertising agencies, broadcast companies, public relations firms, TV channels, radio telecast companies and many more.
In India, the expected growth of the Media and Entertainment industry is 13.5% between 2014-2024, making Journalism and mass communication a highly lucrative job prospect. Top BJMC recruiters are The Hindustan Times, Times group, The Hindu, India Today group, HT Media, NDTV, ZEE Network, India TV, Network 18, and all the rest.
There are full time as well distance programs available for the BJMC course in Delhi. The average fee of the degree program ranges between 50,000 INR to 3 Lac INR varying for different institutions. The selection process includes both university level entrance exams as well as merit-based admissions. Popular BJMC entrance exam includes IPU CET, IIMC, DUET and many more.
The eligibility criteria for the course is slightly variable for different colleges/universities, but the basic requirements remain the same. The candidate should have a minimum of 50-60% score in 10+2 from a recognised board to be eligible for the course.
Top institutes/colleges/universities for BJMC in Delhi-NCR
