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

    Faculty of International Media is a non-independent legal person Chinese-foreign cooperative school-running institution, officially approved by the Ministry of Education(MOE) in September，2014, which is directly under Communication University of China (CUC). It is the first Chinese-foreign cooperative school-running institution in China approved by MOE in the comprehensive disciplines of media, with the approval certificate number MOE11USA02DNR20141596N.

     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, complementing each other's strengths, to provide education at the undergraduate, master and doctor levels.

     The undergraduate programs of Faculty of International Media include: Communication Studies with the University of Missouri-Columbia and Advertising with Nottingham Trent University; 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 2020, Faculty of International Media passed the assessment of Chinese-foreign cooperative educational institutions by the Ministry of Education.In 2024, its comprehensive employment rate was 93.8%, and the rate of undergraduate graduates pursuing further studies exceeded 80%. Nearly 50% of undergraduate graduates go to QS50 universities for further study, and the universities where students go for further study abroad include University of Oxford, Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, University of Edinburgh, Columbia University, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University,University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne and other QS top 50 universities; Universities in China include Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sichuan University, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Southeast University, Communication University of China and other 985 universities or 211 universities; the main employment fields of the graduates include all kinds of media enterprises and institutions and the Internet industry.