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IIJNM offers the following two programs:

A Postgraduate Diploma for students with a Bachelors degree.

A Diploma program for students who have completed pre-university or Standard 12.

Both the diploma programs consist of core courses including advanced seminars, electives, media workshops and a master's thesis project. Depending on the type of diploma program, the requirements vary. These courses are offered in two semesters: July-December and January-June.

Both diploma programs emphasize practical training in addition to important theory. This is accomplished by covering news at least twice every week in Bangalore city and surrounding rural areas, using advanced media equipment, working with sophisticated editing software for text, image, sound and video, publishing newspapers, magazines, TV and radio programs, and on-line multimedia news presentations. All these are carried out under the guidance of veteran journalist faculty who are complemented by guest lecturers from the media industry. Further, students get the opportunity to intern at media organizations for two weeks to a month. In summary, by the time the academic year ends, the graduating class is ready to hit the ground running in their chosen fields – an unmatched experience among media education institutions for motivated students.

IIJNM offers concentrations in Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, New Media (Web) and Multimedia. Television and Radio students produce both television and radio programs as part of their Broadcast curriculum, with special focus on their area of interest – TV or radio. Print and New Media students are required to cover both areas, with special focus on newspaper, magazine or web journalism, respectively. Multimedia students are required to produce a multimedia website that incorporates all aspects of their study--audio, video, slideshows, etc., and provides links to upload material on cell-phones and PDAs.

Students concentrating in newspaper journalism must take the workshop that requires producing an in-house newspaper. Magazine journalism students produce a monthly magazine. New Media students produce a weekly on-line publication. Broadcast students may produce both TV and radio news segments and documentaries, depending on their particular area(s) of interest. Students concentrating in multimedia journalism must take the workshop that requires producing an in-house multimedia website.

Core courses introduce students to reporting and writing, and provide a foundation from which much of the subsequent program work is done. The emphasis is on developing their reporting and writing skills. Students also learn the techniques and tools available to them, and understand the ethical and legal issues involved in professional journalism.

Advanced area seminars emphasize selected major areas of journalism, namely, national political reporting, international news coverage, business and financial reporting, and developmental journalism. Advanced concentration seminars provide further skills in the chosen concentration — Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, New Media or Multimedia.

Elective courses allow students to specialize in one or more subject areas such as political reporting, international news coverage, investigative reporting, business reporting, digital photo journalism and others.

Media workshops are in Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, New Media and Mutlimedia. Each student is required to pick one specialty. In the Television workshop students plan and produce television programs including news bulletins and documentaries on various topics. Similarly in the Radio workshop students work with sound and learn to produce different kinds of radio programs. In the Newspaper workshop, students plan and write a newspaper several times during the semester on politics, crime, health, society and other topics. Magazine workshop requires publishing a monthly magazine. Students learn how to interview, write and edit. New Media workshop builds on the course on New Media tools, and students learn to apply these techniques to traditional story-telling elements. New Media workshop requires publishing both a newspaper and an on-line magazine several times during the semester. Mutlimedia workshop requires publishing and maintaining, on a regular basis, a website using all the aspects of Convergence.

In its scope and duration, the master's thesis project is the postgraduate student's major effort of the year, an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. The master's thesis project may be executed in Television, Radio, Print, New Media and Multimedia. Each student is assigned an adviser who helps select a topic and provides guidance in focusing the project, conducting the research, and reporting, organizing and writing. The master's thesis project is intended to demonstrate students' ability to conduct and sustain research over several months, their ability to gather and organize large amounts of material, and their capacity to present that material clearly and accurately.