Customise your global Mundus Journalism degree

The Erasmus Mundus Journalism master's degree offers you a truly unique and international educational experience. You will study at leading universities in at least two European countries. Selected students can add a third country by studying at one of our prestigious, credit awarding, universities, in the second semester.

Your second year of studies will give you a distinctive academic and journalistic profile within ‘Authoritarianism & Transition’; ‘Crisis & Conflict’; ‘Politics & Communication’; or ‘Cultures & Contexts’. 

First year, you will be studying in Aarhus, Denmark

All students spend the first year of the master’s degree in Aarhus, Denmark studying at both Aarhus University and the Danish School of Media and Journalism.

You can customise your studies by choosing to take electives or an internship (10 ECTS) as part of your second semester. Or you can apply to be one of the selected students who can study their second semester (30 ECTS) at one of our prestigious credit awarding universities.The aim of the first year is to give you the analytical skills needed to identify and analyse cultural, political, and technological challenges to and opportunities for journalism across the globe. You will also learn how to integrate this sophisticated theoretical understanding with practical approaches, to assert journalism within a changing public sphere.

As the EU mandates that students participating in Erasmus Mundus programs undertake their studies in a minimum of two different countries, neither of which should be their country of residence, Danish students (and students with permanent residency in Denmark) must pursue the second semester of their first year of studies at one of our Study Abroad partner universities.

Second year, you will be studying in either Amsterdam, London, Prague or Munich

In the second year, you will be able to specialise in the area of your choice to delve into field-specific topics and strengthen your reflexive journalism skills:

• Politics & Communication at University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands
• Authoritarianism & Transition at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic
• Crisis & Conflict at City St George’s, University of London in the United Kingdom
• Cultures & Contexts at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany

The specialisations in Authoritarianism & Transition and Crisis & Conflict offer more practical journalism training. On the other hand, the specialisations in Politics & Communication and Cultures & Contexts are more theory and research oriented.

Kindly note that during the application process, you will need to choose your second-year specialisation. Once admission is granted for that specialisation, it cannot be changed.

As the EU mandates that students participating in Erasmus Mundus programmes undertake their studies in a minimum of two different countries, neither of which should be their country of residence, students with a permanent residency in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Germany, or the UK must opt for a second-year specialisation in a country other than their country of permanent residence.

Preparing for life (and living costs) abroad

Studying abroad is an exciting and rewarding experience, but it also involves additional costs. In addition to tuition fees and practical matters such as visa applications and housing deposits, you will need to plan for your day-to-day living expenses.

To help you prepare, we have gathered information on average living costs in each of the cities where the Mundus Journalism programme is offered. These links provide detailed and up-to-date overviews of typical expenses — including accommodation, food, transport, and leisure — so you can plan your finances with confidence and focus on making the most of your studies abroad.

• Aarhus
• Amsterdam
• London
• Munich
• Prague

Living costs vary between cities and personal lifestyles, but having an overview will help you make informed decisions and ensure a smooth transition to your new academic home.