# MediaBusiness
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## Carve out your own path to media success
Media organisations need people with the creative vision and business acumen to help them navigate challenges and reach ever-greater heights of success. Developed to respond to industry demand, Media Business focuses on cultivating the necessary management skills for contemporary media leadership.
With a basis in ethical and effective practice, you’ll learn to balance financial, legal and people management needs, developing an acute, sought-after skill set. You’ll graduate ready to lead the way to business success in film, television, advertising, music, games, online content and more.
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Internationally ranked
## Top 150 worldwide
for Communication and Media.
QS Subject Rankings 2026
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Subject ranking
## Top 10
We’re among the top 10 in Australia for Communication and Media.
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
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Graduate outcomes
## 5 stars
Our undergraduate Communications programs received five stars for graduate starting salary.
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## Study options
## Why study Media Business?
- Develop an understanding of how power, influence, economics, and legal obligations affect media processes and content creation, and the necessary management skills to be an effective communicator and business leader
- Based in fundamentals of business-practice, including two subjects housed within UTS Business School
- Learn transferable skills that apply broadly, with key specifications for the media industry
- Participate in real projects, testing your business acumen across different stages of the production process, and within different types of media
- Develop a portfolio of work to show to potential employers– Creative Entrepreneurship allows you to apply your skills in a working environment
- Diverse career outcomes such as business careers within music companies, television and film production companies, advertising agencies, games companies, online and web platforms
- Acquire the skills for roles within business development, strategic planning, promotion, policy, and consultancy.
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