The College of Media and International Culture has five research institutions, including Communication Studies, News Media and Social Development, Broadcasting, Television, and Movies, Aesthetics and Critical Theory, International Culture and Social Thought. The college also has 1 Innovative Research Platform, Innovative Research Platforms of Humanities and Social Science Supported by the National 985 Program, 2 Provincial Key Research Centers of Humanities and Social Science and 6 University-level Research Center.

The college organizes 4 professional academic journals: Communication and the Public (English version), China Media Research(English version), China Media Research (Chinese version) and Research of Marxist Aesthetics” (Chinese version). Among them, there is also an official scientific journal Communication and the Public, being firstly published by the SAGE in March, 2016, and it is the first peer-reviewed English journal in Mainland, China.