Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

In recent years print and electronic media has emerged as a platform to highlight and raise issues of national and international importance. Media at one time confined to government and business houses has now become a channel to reflect common man’s problems.

The growth of technology, government’s liberalized policies and the increased purchasing power of the expanding middle class and their changing life style have been the main reasons for the changing scenario of mass communication in India. Today mass communication industry is not just limited to its country’s boundary but has reached globally. It covers all the latest updates and current happenings around the globe.

Accordingly to a joint report by KPMG and FICCI, over the next five years, media and entertainment industry is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent to reach the size of US$ 24.04 billion by 2014.

The exponential growth in the entertainment and media industry has necessitated its need to setup College of Mass Communication and Journalism to cater the growing demand of students interested in pursuing career in print and electronic media, advertising, public relations, event management and acquiring skills in television news, videography and video editing. The college shall admit first batch of students from the session 2011-12.