MSc Sport Broadcast at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Programme overview

A practice-led master's degree designed and delivered by sport broadcast professionals to prepare graduates for sport broadcast journalism and the wider sport media industry. It was written with sport broadcast journalists from the BBC, ITV and Sky Sports and emphasises live event production, broadcast news journalism and multi-platform digital storytelling.

Faculty: Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences | Duration: 1-2 years full time; 2-5 years part time | Intake: 2027 | Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

80 taught credits, a 60-credit professional broadcasting placement and a 40-credit broadcast documentary dissertation, with no option modules. Modules: Television Broadcasting & Sport On Screen, Audio and Digital Broadcasting, Research Skills in Journalism & Documentary, Ethics, Media Law and Landscape, Professional Broadcasting Placement and Dissertation Documentary.

Career pathways

Graduates work as reporters, presenters, researchers, content creators, producers, marketing executives and social media managers with broadcasters, brands and governing bodies including Sky Sports, BBC, S4C, WRU and FAW; PhD study in sports media is also possible.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A good honours degree (normally 2.1 or above), ideally in a sport, broadcast, media, journalism or humanities subject, or a 2.1 in another subject with a demonstrated passion for sports media or digital broadcast technology. Exceptional entry may be available to applicants with significant relevant industry experience (usually more than 3 years in print, radio or TV journalism or sport PR/communications), including non-graduates, in line with the University's modular master's criteria. International applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 or equivalent.

Domestic applicants: GBP 11,000 for the whole programme (2026/27). Full-time home Postgraduate Masters (including MRes) fee as listed; period not stated in the table. Source

International applicants: GBP 17,600 for the whole programme (2026/27). Full-time international Postgraduate Masters (including MRes) fee as listed. Source

Intake: 2027

Duration: 1-2 years full time; 2-5 years part time

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