The importance and presence of media has improved phenomenally over the past two decades and it must be said that today, the industry is looking at a minimum of 30% growth for the next four years. So it is obvious that the demand for such professionals is high. And keeping that in mind, even the international universities have begun focusing a lot on this stream and are coming up with some specialized subjects in this field.
 
As such, students from sociology and psychology are also eligible to take up higher education in media studies. While few courses are practical, most of the programs offered deal with the theoretical aspect of the media. Factors such as the impact of media on society, the cultural and historical changes caused are in focus. Ideally, media studies are classified into communication studies, mass communications and media studies.
 
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has Comparitive Media Studies Program  is an undergraduate course which gives a wholistic perspective. Similarly, University of Melbourne offers a BA program in media and communication focuses on industry required training to gain practical experience. Various aspects such as advertising, new media, publishing, journalism, television are focused on this program.
 
And to those students who are interested in the future technology such as internet media, they can look at joining courses related to new media. For instance, University Of Leeds offers a BA program which teaches the students to design, build and create new products for the future. Even University of Toronto has got an interesting program which enables the student to take up new media course. Top league institutions like UC Berkely take only the best academic students. Go for it folks!!