We have strong links with industry to ensure our course content remains up to date and relevant for the continually evolving and increasingly competitive public relations sector. You will develop key professional skills by taking part in challenging, real world projects from design to evaluation, analysing communication issues from a range of academic and practical perspectives, writing for different professional contexts and developing digital strategies. Ranked 1st in Scotland for employment in Journalism, Publishing and Public Relations - Guardians University League Tables 2018 You will learn through a range of delivery modes including lectures, tutorials, seminar and IT lab-based practical activity. The nature of the course is interactive: you’ll apply theory to practice, and consider a range of problems and issues, including live client projects. Often teaching is contained within a three hour block per week (lecture and interactive or discussion-based activity) with some of the more production type modules building in lab time. You will share tutorials with a small group (usually no more than 20 students) where you will have the opportunity to study subject-specific case studies and interact with members of staff and other students.

Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with no component lower than 5.5, or an equivalent.