The glitz and glamor of the entertainment industry fascinates, especially young international students who are on their way to building a future career. You can be among them, and you may be intrigued by the lifestyle of the rich and famous, constantly present on the front pages of newspapers, on television or radio.

However, being famous all over the world has its drawbacks, and if you don't like them, you can be part of the entertainment and media industry while keeping your privacy intact. You can make a successful career after completing one of the courses listed below and contribute to the stability of everything that happens in the media.

Check out five impressive university programs that you may not know about, but that you will soon be dreaming about.

1. Entertainment Industry Business

If you are the type of student who likes mathematics, long-term and short-term strategic planning and responsibility that leads to reward, then you can look at the media industry through the eyes of a businessman.

After completing such a diploma course, you will have many career opportunities, including:

• artist manager artist relations manager music or television producer

• casting director

2. Justice in the entertainment industry

Entertainment law is a new combination of specializations that will give you the opportunity to work with contracts and intellectual property. You will protect artistic works and ensure full respect for the rights of artists.

However, you can also specialize in sports, media regulation, technology rights, and other areas. You have prospects of becoming a lawyer and working in a certain field or on a specific issue. Whichever side you choose, such a career will build you a reputation that will provide you with more and more contracts and clients on a long-term basis.

Check out some universities that offer master's degrees in entertainment related to business and law:

• IESA School of Arts and Culture, France

• Milan Polytechnic Institute, Italy

• University of Westminster, United Kingdom

Are you interested in details and ideas on how to create a scene? Think about degrees in artistic representation.

You can also be a pop artist with a master's degree in performing arts. In other words, you can specialize in live entertainment management or take up commercial music. Such an area focuses on both creative talent and the promotion of art and business. This combination of disciplines opens the door for many professions.

You can become:

• drama or music therapist

• theater director

• TV presenter

• teacher of higher education in the field of art

3. Being an artist behind the scenes – doing sketches and design for film production companies

This is an area that is actively involved in the global and rapid evolution of visual effects and technologies that are used in film, television, video games, advertising and many other areas.

With this degree, creativity is at its best, as you can even get the opportunity to work with companies like Universal Pictures, Disney or LEGO. You can choose one of the specializations, such as: video production, electronic field work, writing scripts for television, audio editing.

After graduation, you can become:

• audio editor

• assistant producer multimedia editor

• reporter or television director

Working in media and art can be a chore or an exciting journey full of adventures. You can choose one side or the other and then focus on your development. The degrees mentioned above will build you a solid reputation by keeping you constantly up to date with the latest news.

Here are examples of universities around the world where you can apply for a degree in entertainment design:

• California State University Northridge, USA

• Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, United Kingdom

• Domus Academy, Italy