Oxford Brookes University
Master’s in Publishing | MA Publishing
The renowned MA Publishing from Oxford Brookes has an international reputation for its excellence. Choose from six postgraduate awards and design your own master's programme from the wide range of options available, from children's publishing to magazines and digital media.
Looking for the best publishing MA?
Our programmes for the Master's in Publishing provide you with the skills, knowledge and networks to kickstart your career in publishing, or to improve your current position
- Excellent employment prospects - 97 per cent employability in 2011*
- Our alumni have developed their careers in all sectors of publishing, including trade or consumer, educational, academic, and magazines
- Unrivalled industry links and networking
- Oxford is a global publishing centre
- Unrivalled access to work experience
- International internships
- Visit our web board where employers advertise jobs
- Specialist careers advice including our Working in Publishing Day
* amongst those students surveyed 6 months after their graduation in 2010
Excellent programmes and teaching
- A large faculty with a variety of research interests and extensive industry expertise
- Wide coverage of publishing, from mass market books to magazines
- Visiting speakers from industry regularly contribute to the programmes - you can listen to our podcasts
You can choose from a variety of awards to suit your needs and career aspirations.
The MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University is respected throughout the world. The course gives a solid knowledge of publishing processes and their management, and provides scope to develop specialist skills required for career development.
- Core modules in editorial, marketing, and production and design
- Choose from 10 specialist modules – for example Children's Publishing, Magazine Publishing, Rights Management, International Publishing, Digital Media Publishing, and the History and Culture of Publishing
- More information on all the modules is available here
The MA in International Publishing is geared towards students who may already be working in publishing but want to increase their knowledge of international publishing management and issues related to publishing in a global environment. Students focus on international issues in their major project or dissertation.
The MA in Publishing and Language is targeted at those who wish to work in the field of international co-editions, translations, or international educational publishing. Students focus on language issues in their major project or dissertation.
The MA in Digital Publishing provides a focussed opportunity to examine forms of web publishing with particular reference to standards of mark-up and accessibility. It provides an opportunity for the practical investigation of the strategies to publish digital media using industry adopted technologies.
The MA in Book History and Publishing Culture is aimed at anyone interested in the history of the book and the publishing industry.
The European Master in Publishing is a two-year, international programme for the future publishers of Europe.
Excellence in consultancy and research
- Opportunity to do either a dissertation or major project
- Students have access to unique research resources: specialist publishing collections such as the André Deutsch Collection, the African Publishing Collection and the Bodleian Library
- Oxford Brookes is the permanent home of the Booker Prize Archive
- Our staff have published widely on the present industry as well as the history of publishing
- Publishing seminars are held on a regular basis
- Industry research and consultancy are carried out by the department
Excellent links with industry
- Opportunity to visit international book fairs including Frankfurt, London and Bologna. Our students assist with the organization of the London Book Fair - in 2012 we will again take a stand and will run three seminars on topics including the use of social media, environmental issues, and children's publishing
- An industry advisory board with representatives from major publishers such as Bloomsbury, Faber, HarperCollins, Hodder and Random House
- Links with publishing organizations such as the Independent Publishers Guild, OPuS (Oxford Publishing Society) and the Society of Young Publishers – regular events are held at Oxford Brookes
- Industry scholarships - in 2011 we had scholarships from Cambridge University Press, Random House, Macmillan, and the Stationers' Foundation
- Prizes for the best student work, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, Lightning Source, Palgrave Macmillan, Pearson Education and Taylor & Francis
- An extensive network of alumni throughout the world
Excellent location
- The city of Oxford has something for everyone. A beautiful, historic city, it has the most published authors per square mile of any city in the UK. Famous writers who have lived here include J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Colin Dexter and Mark Haddon. The Oxford Literary Festival takes place each Spring and in April 2011 we ran a speaker event with the author Marcus du Sautoy, the literary agent Felicity Bryan, and the Sunday Times journalist Cathy Galvin
- Oxford is a vibrant, student-friendly place with lots to offer, including a wide range of sporting venues, shops, pubs, cafes, clubs, cinemas, theatres and restaurants
- With excellent transport links, it is ideally situated for exploring the rest of Britain and Europe. London is easily accessible by both coach and train