1982
Private
NAAC A
Co-Ed
The AJK
Mass Communication Research Centre is a premier media institution in India.
Founded in 1982 by Anwar Jamal Kidwai (former VC of Jamia Millia Islamia and
later, Chairman of the Centre), the MCRC offers graduate and post-graduate
courses in the art, craft and technology of the modern media. The MCRC provides
the highest standard of media education and training with a professionally and academically
accomplished faculty and a broad spectrum of visiting professionals.
A.J. Kidwai established the MCRC in collaboration with York
University, Toronto and the Canadian International Development Aid Agency. The
CIDA provided the MCRC with a range of sophisticated production equipment while
York University sent the first generation of teachers. The team from York was
led by distinguished documentary filmmaker James Beveridge, a close associate
of documentary pioneer John Grierson, founder of the National Film Board of
Canada.
AJ Kidwai envisioned the institute as providing an intensive and
integrated media education that would enable students to develop their
individual expertise and skills within a secular and collaborative working
environment. Upholding the philosophy & vision of its founders, the
institute continues to provide its students a comprehensive media education
that nurtures the individual aspirations of students while inspiring them to
make a meaningful contribution to the social environment within which they
work. The Centre continues to work within this broad mandate while regularly
updates its courses to meet the growing challenges of contemporary media. These
efforts have been constantly appreciated and supported by generous grants from
the government and other international agencies like Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA).
To provide international exposure and expertise to the students,
the Centre has also forged collaborative ties with the University of York,
Toronto (Canada), University of Westminster, London(UK) and Sciences Po,
Paris(France).
The whole attempt at the MCRC is to create competent and
thoughtful media practitioners whose engagement with the world of media is both
professional and intellectual