A Brief Overview of the Faculty of International Media (ICUC)

    Faculty of International Media is a non-independent legal person Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution，with the approval certificate number MOE11USA02DNR20141596N，officially approved by the Ministry of Education(MOE) in September，2014, which is directly under Communication University of China (CUC). In November 2020, Faculty of International Media added the brand International Student Education Center (later renamed as “International Student Affairs Center”), which became the implementation and management organization of Chinese-foreign cooperative education projects and the unified management platform for international students, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students. Now it has more than 500 students enrolled in Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs, and at the same time, International Student Affairs Center is responsible for the management of more than 200 Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas students and more than 500 international students.

     Faculty of International Media is founded on the philosophy of “bringing together Chinese and foreign quality educational resources to disseminate Chinese wisdom”, and aims to cultivate international media talents who are “familiar with the rules of global communication, able to participate in the competition and cooperation in global communication affairs, able to utilize the advanced and internationally accepted media and information means to tell China's story to the world, and able to participate in or lead international teams to contribute value and wisdom to China's international development”. It cooperates closely with the University of Missouri-Columbia in the United States and Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom, and University College Cork in Ireland complementing each other's strengths, to provide education at the undergraduate, master and doctor levels. In 2020, it successfully passed the assessment of Chinese-foreign cooperative education institutions by the Ministry of Education. In 2025, it was rated as an outstanding Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution.

   The undergraduate programs of Faculty of International Media include: Communication Studies with the University of Missouri-Columbia, Advertising with Nottingham Trent University and Digital Economy with University College Cork; master degree programs are Communication (Media and Globalization), Journalism and Communication (Broadcast Journalism) and Media Economics (Museum and Heritage Development) in cooperation with Nottingham Trent University; doctor degree program is Radio, Television and New Media with Nottingham Trent University.

  Faculty of International Media has made great efforts to build a three-in-one Chinese-foreign integrated education system of “professional knowledge + professional ability + professionalism”, formed a curriculum system of “thick foundation for Chinese professional courses and strong frontier for foreign professional courses”, and created a practical and dual-creation education platform of “professional practical training + enterprise internship + overseas practice”. Through the study center, academic English training, one-on-one tutoring by foreign teachers, second foreign language teaching, data skills learning and cutting-edge lectures in academia and industry have been opened to lay the foundation for all-round education. It adheres to the fundamental mission of “cultivating moral integrity”, takes “aggregating international media education resources, serving the national development strategy and industrial demand” as the orientation. With “talents” as the focus, “specialty” as the lead, “teaching” as the foundation, “management” as the support, and “culture” as the link, we will promote the reform and innovation of internationalized media talents cultivation. In 2020, Faculty of International Media successfully passed the assessment of Chinese-foreign cooperative education institutions by the Ministry of Education.

   The professional and title structure of the Chinese and foreign teacher teams is good. The proportion of associate professor and above titles is 84.1%in the Chinese teaching team, 83.33%in the British teaching team,and 70%in the American teaching team.

     In recent years, the rate of comprehensive employment and undergraduate graduates pursuing further studies has been good. The universities they attend abroad include the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University College London, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, King's College London in the UK, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University in the US, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and the University of Melbourne in Australia. Those who pursue postgraduate studies in China attend universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Xiamen University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shandong University, and Communication University of China, which are 985 or 211 universities. The main employment fields of graduates include various media enterprises and institutions as well as the Internet industry.