About The School - Best Media and Communication
College in Kolkata

Convergent, Multimedia-Driven and Futuristic Courses in Journalism, Entertainment Media, Communication Management, Events & Entertainment Management and Media Technology.

Adamas University (AU) School of Media and Communication (SOMC) provides convergent, multimedia-driven and futuristic courses in Journalism, Film and Television and Communication Management. The school currently conducts industry-ready, technology-oriented, field-based, research-centric and applied courses that strive to create efficient professionals in the areas of Journalism, Film and Television and Communication Management. The programmes are so designed so as to create conscientious and ethical professionals for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry. The school is the only media school in India that has devised its complete curriculum on the basis of convergence and multimediality. Platform-agnostic storytelling is the basis of all programmes, offered by the school. It also has a strong tie-up with the industry. The instructional method followed at the school is threefold: (i) classroom lectures conducted by trained and experienced faculty members; (ii) workshops and seminars conducted by industry honchos; and (iii) fieldwork and internships to make the students understand the professional demands.

Recently, the school was ranked the best private media school in West Bengal and the seventh best private media school in India by the prestigious Outlook-ICARE rankings.

VISION

To be an internationally-acclaimed centre of excellence committed towards creating an ethical, socially-conscious and responsible fourth estate for the nation by producing entrepreneurs and leaders in media, communications and entertainment space by providing a future-proof, innovation-led, research-backed, value-based, ethical, and entrepreneurial educational ecosystem, which is powered by the latest technology.

MISSION

  1. Make media leadership as well as media entrepreneurship the fundamental curricular aspect of all the offered programmes.
  2. Provide outcome-based education, powered by design thinking approach, enabling life-long learning.
  3. Produce industry-ready professionals and entrepreneurs with a convergent, technology-driven multi-media approach to media, communication and entertainment education.  
  4. Inculcate research as an intrinsic culture in the teaching-learning process.  
  5. Partner with international institutions as well as industry to create future-ready professionals and entrepreneurs in media, communication and entertainment space.  
  6. Develop an innovation-led interdisciplinary approach in dealing with contemporary issues that have a significant bearing on humanity.

HIGHLIGHTS (WHY SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION)

  • Field-based approach of delivering lessons and storytelling method of education.
  • Convergence model of media education.
  • Research-driven and industry-backed curricula.
  • Media Entrepreneurship, Media Ethics and Media Technology integrated into the curriculum.
  • Regular industry interfaces.
  • Opportunity to pursue a minor course along with the major degree.
  • Alumni placement assistance up to three years.
  • Adamas Comprehensive Excellence (ACE) Score for holistic development.
  • Placement assistance for up to five years.
  • Industry alliances.

Study Specialized and New Generation Programs

  • B.A. (Hons) Journalism and Mass Communication
  • B.Sc. (Hons) Media Science, Graphics and Animation
  • M.A. Journalism and Mass Communication
  • M.A. Film and Television
  • MBA Media Management

Key Features of the School

Internship and Placement

The role of Career Developmental Cell is to assess students to measure their abilities, data interpretation, and problem-solving skills and helping them to identify development needs in advance. Students go through the counselling session to profile their strengths and weaknesses at the dawn of his/her professional career. CDC also contact corporates for internships and placement opportunities.

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Associate Dean – School of Media and Communication

Devising total 17+ years of academic and admin experience, Dr. Siwach has been serving as Professor and Associate Dean of School of Media and Communication Adamas University Kolkata. Prior to his current profile, he has been the Head of School of Media and Entertainment at GD Goenka University, Gurgaon (Haryana) for last 6.5 years followed by Lovely Professional University (Punjab) for 3 years as HoD, Journalism, and Academic Operations Coordinator for Journalism and Film Production from 2016-2019. Prior to that he worked with NIILM University, Kaithal (Haryana) from 2015 to 2016 followed by Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra from 2010 to 2013. He worked as Assistant Director for short film and documentaries for DD from 2008-2009. Under his headship, UG, PG and PhD programs BAJMC, MAJMC, B.Sc. Animation & VFx, B.Sc. Sound Engineering and BCA-Game Development were running in the School of Media and Entertainment at GD Goenka University. Apart from administrating media school, he has been serving as PhD Program Chair and Centre Superintendent for End Term Exams of the University. He served the role as Director, Centre for Online Education (CDOE) at GD Goenka University. He has been granted the seed grant from the university.

Alums of Kurukshetra University, he earned Ph.D. on Online Advertising,  MPhil (Mass Communication & Journalism and M.Sc. Mass Communication from GJUST (2007), Hisar, and also cleared UGC-NET in Mass Communication and Journalism.
Dr Siwach has in credited 33 research publications in Scopus-listed journals, ABDC and UGC-CARE-listed journals, and authored 1 book on Online advertising along with contributing 5 book chapters in Media and Communication domain. He has extensive experience of Curriculum designing for new UG, PG & PhD programs and has been member Secretary of various BoS during current & earlier responsibilities. He has been a member of Academic Council and IQAC. Beyond publications, under his dynamic supervision, 10 PhD degrees have been awarded in Media and Mass Communication and 1 thesis recently has been submitted and currently supervising media scholars.

Dr Siwach has been invited resource person. Recently, Dr Siwach successfully participated and obtained A+ grade in a UGC sponsored Short Term Course on Development of E-Content and MOOCs organized by UGC-MMTTC, Mata Vaishno Devi University Jammu from 08-12-2025 to 13-12-2025. On the same track, he successfully participated and obtained A+ grade in a UGC sponsored Short Term Course on E-Content Development and MOOCs organized by UGC-MMTTC, Osmania University, Hyderabad from 30-06-2025 to 05-07-2025. Having inclusive experience on Modern Media, Digital Advertising, Branding, Digital Public Relations and Digital Marketing, he participated more than 2 dozen conferences, workshops and seminars of national and international repute.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

  1. School of Media and Communication Ranked 7th in India and 1st in Bengal among private media colleges by Outlook – iCare 2022.
  2. Sumit Majumdar, a 2019-22 batch student of B.A. (Honours) (Journalism and Mass Communication), established his own venture 3S Marketing Venture under the guidance of the Adamas University (AU) Incubation and Innovation Cell.
  3. Students run a news portal called JournaPost which has 50K organic views.
  4. Films made by students have won national and international awards at film festivals.

STUDENT PROJECTS

Students of School of Media and Communication Organising a Quiz

Students of School of Media and Communication Organising a Quiz

Students Participating in an Extempore Speech Competition Organised by the School of Media and Communication

Students Participating in an Extempore Speech Competition Organised by the School of Media and Communication

Students of School of Media and Communication Organising the 100th Birth Anniversary of Satyajit Ray

Students of School of Media and Communication Organising the 100th Birth Anniversary of Satyajit Ray

Students Participating in a Poster Competition Organised by the School of Media and Communication

Students Participating in a Poster Competition Organised by the School of Media and Communication

EVENTS (WHAT’S NEW)

  1. A Photography Competition will be organized on August 19, 2022 on the occasion of World Photography Day.
  2. The maiden version of Adamas International Film Festival (AIFF) will be organized from January 19, 2023 and January 20, 2023.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

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