Background
The Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) is Cambodia’s oldest and largest university, providing a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees with about 10,000 students and over 400 faculty members.
Department of Media and Communication at RUPP was established in 2001 as the first academic training centre for communication, journalism, and media in Cambodia.
Vision & Mission
The Department of Media and Communication (DMC) is to be regionally recognized as Cambodia’s premier academic institute for students seeking careers in the mass media, journalism, and communication professions. We aim to:
- Prepare our students to be effective, professional, and ethical practitioners with mass media’s various formats.
- Foster a free, viable and socially responsible media in Cambodia.
- Prepare our students to become creative and responsible leaders and managers of mass media productions that serve the needs of the Cambodian people.
- Prepare our students to become standard bearers for ethical behavior in the mass media, communication, and journalism.
Resources
FACULTY
Our faculty is made up of professors and media/communication experts from overseas and experienced Cambodian lecturers with PhD and Master’s degrees.
GUEST LECTURES
In order to broaden our students’ career horizons and help connect them to current media-related professionals, every Friday morning the DMC arranges guest lecturer with relevant speakers from across the industry.
COMPUTER LAB
Besides the computer facilities in the library, the DMC houses a computer lab for computer skills training and audio and visual editing.
EDITING ROOM, RADIO & TV STUDIO
The DMC has its own fully equipped radio and TV studios for students to practice their skills and produce their own programs. To further the needs for technical process, we equipped the editing room with high capacity machines.
LIBRARY
DMC library is open seven days a week (except on public holidays). It houses over 2,000 books covering such topics as communication, media, journalism, political science, sociology, and other social sciences. It also offers a broad collection of newspapers and magazines, periodicals, research reports, and radio and TV productions The library further provides other facilities including cable TV, printing and copying, and a dozen computers with internet access (both cable and wireless).
Contact
DMC/CCI, RUPP, Russian Blvd., Phnom Penh, 12156
Tel/Fax: (855) 23 88 44 08
