Student’s profile: The Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Radio, Podcast and Digital Audio is directed to those who want to have a professional career as communicators, managers or directors of radio programs. In order to be admitted to the Master’s Degree program, you will need to have a higher education degree; with a Bachelor’s or Undergraduate Degree in Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and Public Relations being especially indicated.
Graduate’s profile: Our students are trained as multi-functional and multidisciplinary professionals with knowledge and competences for being, at the same time, communicators, announcers, scriptwriters, radio station managers, program managers, editors, producers, directors and digital content managers. The degree is aimed towards those persons who want to develop their career as multidisciplinary professionals in the medium of radio.
Degree:Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Radio, Podcast and Digital Audio
Type of degree: Nebrija University’s Own Degree
Learning centers where it is offered:
- Madrid-Princesa Campus (C/ Santa Cruz de Marcenado, 27 - 28015 Madrid)
- Onda Cero Madrid (Fuerteventura, 12, San Sebastián de los Reyes).
Total Credits 60 credits.
Minimum 12 ECTS credits and maximum 60 ECTS credits per enrollment and academic year
Academic year in which it was implemented: 2014/15
Learning center:School of Communication and Arts
Places offered: 30
Duration: 1 year. From October to June
Type of Teaching: Class attendance
Branch of knowledge: Law and Social Sciences
Academic Regulations: General student’s regulations. Credit transfer and recognition. Regulation of student participation.
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In the Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Radio, Podcast and Digital Audio, we train you as a multidisciplinary, versatile and multi-skilled professional to join the increasingly growing audio industry. The evolution of the digital sonosphere requires professional profiles that can work both in a radio station, as well as in production companies, distributors and branded content for podcasts. This postgraduate degree enables you, in addition to performing traditional functions in the world of radio as a communicator, producer or program announcer, to develop as a podcaster.
We train you as an audio content creator, producer, distributor and marketer of podcasts, audiobooks and social audio.
The Master's Degree in Radio, Podcast, and Digital Audio, with 60 credits, offers advanced practical training thanks to the experience of the most renowned professionals in the Spanish and international industry.
Our degree has been academically designed taking into account the evolution of the audio market in recent years. The evolution of the digital sonosphere has meant a change in the communication paradigm in which radio was the most predominant in the market. The consumption of audio has changed and, as a result, so have the logics, systems and channels of production, distribution and marketing. The new habits of sound consumption are exerting a powerful change in what can already be described as a new cultural industry. Currently, the most demanded profiles to cover this transformation go through the creation, production and distribution of content related to podcasting, audiobooks, social audio and radio as social media in accordance with the features of the contemporary digital ecosystem.
Radio, despite having the listening predominance, has been losing audience for years by not incorporating new listeners to its market. Radio is in the midst of a digital revolution and will have to adapt to the new demand for audio. The main international audio platforms in Spain are investing in exclusive content. This implies a commitment to production in each country, and therefore qualified professionals with the ability to respond to the demands of the market and companies.
Read lessGuaranteed internships that take place at the most prominent companies in the audio sector that participate in this postgraduate course, where students acquire all the professional skills.
The program is taught in the new installations of the Madrid-Princesa Campus, located in the center of Madrid and a subway ride from everything.
Studying with students of more than 30 nationalities allows establishing a network of contacts with professionals from any part of the world.
Students must take 60 credits
The students can participate in the internship program of Nebrija University and in selection processes offered especially by Onda Cero Radio.
Further information on Internships in CompaniesThe Final Research Project involves the realization by the student of a real project in which the knowledge, capacities, competences and abilities acquired during the period of carrying out the Master’s Degree are integrated and applied. The Final Research Project will be done as a team.
Profesores Professors | Porcentaje de Doctores Percentage of PhD holders |
16 | 12% |
It is an essential requirement to access the Master's programs to have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in accordance with the current legislation. A Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences (Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations) will be especially valued. In this sense, we are looking for students who have skills that foresee a good disposition for teamwork, have great flexibility and open-mindedness to the incorporation of new knowledge and new ways of working, and that, regardless of what scientific or technical studies they come from, they show a great interest in the humanities in general, and a great sense of social responsibility in professional work.
The admission process to the Master's degree begins by sending the following documentation by post or courier to the Postgraduate Admissions Section:
Once the documentation has been received and it has been verified that the diploma submitted grants to the degree, as established in Arts. 15 and 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, candidates take the admission test with the coordinator of the degree. This test is carried out in person in Madrid when possible or, failing that, it can also be taken remotely (online) for those candidates residing outside of Spain.
The candidate holds a personal interview with the Program Coordinator. This interview is in itself an admission test in which the specific knowledge of the candidate is evaluated through a battery of questions about the area of knowledge, as well as their level of maturity and attitudes to it. After this interview, the coordinator prepares a report on the candidate's skills profile, his degree of maturity, his personal interest in Audiovisual Journalism and his suitability for the degree, which is attached to the file that the Admissions Commission will assess.
The University Admissions Commission, made up of heads of the Department itself, the General Secretary and the Department of University Development will be in charge of proposing to the Rector of the University the granting of student status to those candidates whose suitability has been proven.
The candidate receives written information about their admission, which is previously provided by phone, about the result of the admission process and formalizing their enrollment in the Program, the definitive documentation, duly legalized, that must be submitted, etc.
The team of professors of the School of Communication and Arts is comprised by professionals from each area of specialization, who implement a teaching method based on the conviction that what we learn, we learn by doing.
Integration into the profession is based on the incorporation of professionals such as associate professors who guarantee each program, on a teaching methodology inspired by the learning-by-doing model that impacts the experiential aspect in the classrooms and in the activities of academic extension.
The Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Radio, Podcast and Digital Audio has a close connection with the Atresmedia group, which benefits the students and the validity of the curriculum.
The Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Radio, Podcast and Digital Audio trains professionals for future employment in the following areas:
Nebrija University has been providing training in the world of audio for more than ten years. The Master's degree in Radio has evolved at the same rate as the audio profession. This University's own degree was one of the first to include training in podcasting in the last four editions, as it is essential complementary training, through the series Los lunes al Podcast, academic year 2020-2021, and the Podcasting Expert Course, which was taught for the first time during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Carlos Alsina holds a live debate with students from the Nebrija University about the twenty years since 9/11.
In addition, the Master's Degree in Radio produces the podcast "Cómo suena lo que suena", a podcast where we bring you closer to everything related to audio and what is going on at Nebrija University.
In this Podcast we tell you how we teach radio in the Master's Degree in Radio of the Nebrija University. We tell you what are the requirements to be able to do this University's own Master's Degree. In it you can discover from the perspective of students and teachers how are the subjects, how we teach the skills so that students can implement them from the first day they do their practices in Atresmedia radio.
The students of the Master's Degree in Radio of the Nebrija University lived in first person the life of the radio director in Onda Cero, by the hand of Carlos Alsina and his program "Más de Uno".