Educating for Tomorrow's Media
Institutions - Empower Your Students with BEA
Joining BEA as an institutional member turns your program’s name into a nationally-recognized brand. Each membership covers your entire campus, unlocking faculty access to peer-reviewed journals, research grants, and discounted convention rates while giving students entrée to world-class creative festivals, scholarships, and career events.
From elevating your program’s visibility to delivering cost-free professional development for every student, BEA institutional membership offers a high-impact, low-cost way to position your school at the forefront of media education.
Have your Student Stand Out
Stand out in the rankings. For programs looking to raise their public profile, BEA’s Annual School Rankings are a powerful differentiator. Based on cumulative student success in the Festival of Media Arts, the rankings provide a data-driven badge of excellence you can showcase in recruitment materials, accreditation reports, and alumni outreach. Top-performing schools receive a media kit with customizable graphics, press-release templates, and social-media copy to maximize the visibility of their achievement.
Free Student Memberships
Give every undergraduate a head start—for free. One of the most valuable perks of institutional membership is complimentary BEA membership for all full-time undergraduates. We additionally offer a level of membership that can cover all of the graduate students at your institution, too. These students can compete in the Festival, join webinars, and register for the BEA/NAB convention at the lowest member rate—all without paying a dime.
Build community on campus
Your dues also include a free Collegiate Media Chapter, automatic eligibility for BEA’s 48-Hour Film and Audio Shorts challenges, and priority promotion in BEA’s national communication channels—resources that enrich co-curricular life and strengthen retention.
