The students of the School of Media and Cultural Studies constitute the Placement Committee. The Placement Committee consists of a representative from the senior and junior batches to coordinate the placement process, and the faculty for any facilitation as and when requested of them. With every successive batch of students going out of the School, the avenues explored for a career by them have just widened. The course’s emphasis on both theory and practice has enabled a number of options in terms of the professions that a student can choose to pursue. Production has offered a spectrum of choices for students of Media and Cultural Studies, as is evident from some of them having made careers of film making, freelance documentary film making, television and radio production. Some students have taken up further education, pursuing M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, while some have joined organisations that document varied aspects of a community’s cultural practices.

Here are some of the organisations that our alumni are part of:

• Art India magazine, Mumbai
• Drishti Media Collective
• Pad.ma
• St.Xavier’s College of University of Goa
• Time Out, Mumbai
• BBC, Mumbai
• CNBC
• Radio One, Bangalore
• Times of India, Chennai
• Kadence International, Indonesia
• Rhombus Factor, Mumbai
• NACDOR – New Delhi
• Google, New Delhi
• Praxis, New Delhi
• Anticlock Films, Mumbai
• Amar Chitra Katham Mumbai
• Illumine, Mumbai
• Web 18, Mumbai
• The Indian Express, Kolkata
• CSSS, Kolkata
• Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Cornell University
• Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad
• National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai
• INECC (Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change)
• ASPBAE (Asian South-Pacific Bureau of Adult Education)
• Centre for Lifelong Learning, TISS
• Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
• Red Chillies Entertainment, Mumbai
• MummyDaddy.com, New Delhi
• All India Bakchod, Mumbai
• FirstPost, Mumbai
• ET NOW, Mumbai
• Film Heritage Foundation, Mumbai
• Scroll.in, Mumbai
• Teach For India, Mumbai
• Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Pune
• Agastya International Foundation, Bangalore
• The Hindu, Chennai
• Feminist Approach to Technology, New Delhi

The MA and Diploma programmes require a mandatory internship of a 6 weeks and 8 weeks. The programme has encouraged the students to work in the mainstream media as well as organisations engaging with alternate media practices. Students decide on an area of interest and negotiate an internship with an organisation of their interest, in consultation with the faculty. Internships have ranged from the print media like the Indian Express to the Electronic media like BBC  and organisations working with alternative media like Media Matters, Laya and Comet Media Foundation, to mention a few.

Some of the organisations that our students have interned with are:

• Radio One, Bangalore
• Taylor and Francis,Delhi
• Prajaak, Kolkata
• The Mint, Krishna Krupa, Mumbai
• Pixion, Mumbai
• Dungarpur Films, Mumbai
• Circus Motion Pictures, Mumbai
• Indian Express, Kolkata
• The Hindu, New Delhi
• The Assam Tribune
• HIMAL, South Asia, Nepal
• UNESCO, Delhi
• Media Matters, Mumbai
• Watershed Organisation Trust, Pune
• Laya, Vishakhapatnam
• Prayas, Mumbai
• Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP), Raebareli
• Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
• Majlis, Mumbai
• Abhivyakti Media for Development, Nashik
• CNN-IBN, Kolkata
• CNN-IBN Network 18, Mumbai
• DDK, Guwahati
• BBC, Mumbai
• CNN-IBN, Mumbai
• Tehelka Weekly News Magazine, New Delhi
• People Magazine, Mumbai
• Open Media Network, New Delhi
• Rediffusion – Y&R;, Mumbai