Message From The Dean
Professor Mohamed Shouman
Dean of Faculty of Communication and Mass Media
Dear Students,
I would like to welcome you to the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media (FCMM).
‘FCMM has succeeded since its establishment in 2014 in clinching a place amongst the top media faculties in the Middle East and North Africa. The faculty has a longstanding culture of increasing its international partnerships with key international institutions. FCMM has an active partnership with London South Bank University in the UK ,and this partnership awards FCMM students a dual degree certified by BUE and LSBU. The faculty has established exchange programmes that enable its students to spend one year abroad in the validating university LSBU. These partnerships and agreements are contributing to boosting the mission of the faculty which has been set to help our students in accommodating foreseeable changes in the media industry with a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience to be effective, skilled, and ethical critics in a globalised world. Teaching and research in the faculty are key activities. Therefore, the Faculty is providing the most advanced facilities in the media field and the faculty has a cluster of highly qualified academic and professional teachers. Thank you for choosing us!’
Professor Mohamed Shouman
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The Supreme Council of Universities is the only designated official entity in Egypt for the recognition and equivalence of academic qualifications and degrees awarded by universities and institutes that are not subjected to Universities Law No. 49 dated 1972 or foreign Higher educational institutes.
About:
The Faculty of Communication and Mass Media (FCMM) at The British University in Egypt (BUE) aims to promote cultural, economic, social and technological development through preparing a generation of fully equipped communication and media graduates. FCMM offers a four-year full-time programme designed to render students with academic theoretical knowledge and how to apply it within the creative practice in the communication and mass media industry. The faculty gives its students the choice of opting 1 of 4 specialisations, and they are: Journalism and New Media, Radio and Television, Film and Media Studies, and Integrated Marketing Communications. FCMM bestows its students with dual degrees, being validated by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities and London South Bank University (LSBU).
With its state-of-the-art programmes, FCMM is considered the initial faculty in Egypt that offers comprehensive film and media studies in one programme. Some of them incorporate film, broadcasting, journalism, public relations and new media modules from miscellaneous sub-disciplines such as media and society, media and politics, film and media analysis, multimedia, and communication for development. Furthermore, the faculty has and continues to recruit experts in the field, local and international staff that are responsible for the teaching process. In this likely manner, FCMM equips its graduates to be competent in working within the competitive job market of not only national but also regional and international media.
Notably, the faculty inaugurated its Masters of Science (MSc.) programme during the academic year of 2020-2021. Having a dual degree from the UK and Egypt, the programme is exclusively specialised in Digital Media. The postgraduate programme transpires on exploring the paramount transformations of the 21st century digital media landscape. The MSc. in Digital Media is considered the first interdisciplinary programme in Egypt that incorporates both Communication & Mass Media modules, and Informatics & Computer Science modules. Students are exposed to a number of sub-disciplinary modules each semester, and thus gaining the prerequisite knowledge and competence.