Editing Media studies (section)

=== New Zealand ===
Media studies in [[New Zealand]] is a healthy discipline, mainly due to renewed activity in the country's [[Cinema of New Zealand|film industry]], and is taught at both secondary and tertiary education institutes.  Media studies in NZ can be regarded as a singular success, with the subject well-established in the tertiary sector (such as Screen and Media Studies at the [[University of Waikato]]; Media Studies, [[Victoria University of Wellington]]; Film, Television and Media Studies, [[University of Auckland]]; Media Studies, [[Massey University]]; Communication Studies, [[University of Otago]]).

Different courses can offer students a range of specializations, such as cultural studies, media theory and analysis, practical film-making, journalism, and communications studies. Media studies has been a nationally mandated and very popular subject in secondary (high) schools, taught across three years in a very structured and developmental fashion, with Scholarship in Media Studies available for academically gifted students. According to the New Zealand Ministry of Education Subject Enrollment figures,<ref>NZ Ministry of Education https://educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/schooling/student-numbers/subject-enrolment</ref> 229 New Zealand schools offered Media Studies as a subject in 2016, representing more than 14,000 students.