SIMS as a learning institution would not award diploma or degree courses for students on the pattern of universities and institutes which are already doing this and there is no need to replicate the degree conferment. The scope of activities of SIMS will be to connect discover and join the dots that make a straight line to give an empowered mind, a reasoned analyst mind and develop techniques to understand interpret and bring change in module of media reporting and coverage. This can be achieved through the following four broad areas:

A publication programme and a quasi-research journal on media issues.