Arts, Media and Society (BA)

Career prospects

With your bachelor’s degree, you’re more than a specialist in Arts, Media and Society. Alongside your subject expertise, you’ve developed a broad set of academic skills that give you a strong start in your career. Graduates often find roles where communication, writing, research and teaching play a central role. There are a surprising number of directions you can take after completing your studies.

Why employers find you interesting

Arts, Media and Society graduates often secure roles that require a high level of education. Within two months of graduation, 61% find a job, and 75% are employed within six months. Research among alumni shows that for 65%, their first job was at higher professional or academic level. After gaining a few years of experience, this rises to 82%.

The skills you develop during your studies make you a strong candidate for a wide range of roles in various organisations. Recent graduates report that critical, knowledgeable and active use of media, written and oral communication, problem-solving, independent working, creativity (in both thinking and acting) and social awareness are the skills they use most in their jobs.

Gaining relevant experience alongside your studies strengthens your position. Alumni say that internships – whether abroad or in the Netherlands – and relevant work experience during their studies contributed most to their career start.

Where can you work after graduating?

Your expertise and capabilities open doors in many different sectors. Our alumni work at Dutch and international companies and organisations in sectors such as arts and culture, education and government and semi-government.

35 % Arts and Culture
12 % Education
12 % Financial and professional services
6 % Government and semipublic sector
6 % Information management
6 % Research
6 % Communication and marketing
6 % Advisory and Consultancy
6 % Travel organisation/aviation
5 % Other

Source: Career Survey 2025 among graduates of the BA Arts, Media and Society 2020-2024. Career Service Humanities.

Many graduates continue with a master’s degree after their bachelor’s. Further study pays off: those with a master’s degree are more likely to secure higher-level positions.

Graduates at work

A glimpse of workplaces where recent Arts, Media and Society graduates have started their careers:

Collection manager for a Dutch municipality
Corporate Communications Support - Stage Entertainment
Teacher Cultural Studies/Drawing at a Dutch High School
Registrar - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
HR coordinator - Automotive company