The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
was founded in 1925 and is the largest educational institution in Greece. The Aristotle University has forty Departments, organized into eleven Schools, covering the entire spectrum of scientific fields. It has all the modern infrastructure and is internationally recognized, both for its quality educational and research work and for its social contribution to the local, national and wider region. You can read more information about the Rectorate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki here.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications
was established in 1991 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the mission of providing the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for the practice of Journalism, researching issues related to the subject of Journalism and Mass Communications, as well as contributing to the consolidation of the Journalistic Profession. With the reorganization of the Faculties of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2013, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications was incorporated into the renamed School of Economics and Political Sciences, which also includes the Schools of Economics and Political Sciences. As of November 2023, the School was renamed School of Social & Economic Sciences.
The subject of the Postgraduate Program “Communication” is
the study, research and provision of postgraduate education in the fields of Communication, with two specializations:
A. Political and Public Communication
B. Cultural Management and Communication
The purpose of the Postgraduate Program is to cultivate and promote scientific knowledge in the fields of Communication, as well as to develop research in the scientific fields of the two specializations. It concerns special thematic units of the cognitive subjects of the first cycle of studies, based on which postgraduate students acquire specialized training in order to be able to meet the existing and anticipated social and developmental needs of the labor market in the field of political and public communication, as well as in the fields of cultural management.
The specific objectives of the specializations are to provide education and specialized knowledge, both theoretical and practical, on the interaction of communication and culture, communication research methods and the practice of communication and cultural policy, with the aim of training executives for employment in communication and cultural organizations in the public and private sectors, in political parties and political organizations, in non-governmental organizations, in mass media and the broader audiovisual industry, in local government and regional development institutions, in cultural and educational institutions, in public opinion research and advertising bodies. The possibility of internships for postgraduate students in matters of their specialization, which may form part of the educational process in this Program, is also aimed at these. Furthermore, the aim of both specializations is to develop the critical and research skills required for postgraduate studies and further research activity in the fields of Communication. The Program seeks, on the one hand, to provide postgraduate students with solid foundations, modern knowledge, methods and basic principles, which will enable them to continuously educate, improve and create in a spirit of innovation, with the application of modern technologies, and on the other hand, to cultivate in students the critical and creative skills required for a socially and ethically responsible professional activity.