Graduate Programs

Graduate study in the College of Communications is based in the research and teaching expertise of the College’s distinguished graduate faculty. We believe that graduate communications scholarship is most effective and rewarding when graduate students are given the opportunity to work with a cadre of prominent scholars whom students have identified as having the particular expertise that best suits their scholarly objectives.

Celebrating 150 years of graduate education at Penn State.
March 22 - 24, 2013

Our experience confirms the proposition that graduate students thrive in a program that facilitates their active and ongoing collaboration with leading scholars. Therefore, rather than offering graduate programs based on the expected, generic list of graduate communication courses, our focus is centered on seminars and track configurations that reflect our faculty’s expertise.

Graduates find placement at prestigious universities such as Penn, Illinois, North Carolina, and Florida.

Our Faculty

The mass communications graduate faculty at Penn State is among the very best in the country. Faculty members have a diversity of specializations uncommon elsewhere, and their individual and collective national reputations and research productivity have been widely recognized.

Diversity

The College’s graduate programs maintain a highly diverse student population with a healthy balance of women, minorities, and internationals progressing toward advanced degrees. The 2004 internal program review by the Penn State Graduate School noted that "the College again deserves to be commended for its outstanding efforts to successfully attract an increasingly diverse student body."

Applications for admission for Fall 2014

• Deadline: Ph.D. in Mass Communications, Dec. 15, 2013
• Deadline: M.A. in Media Studies, Jan. 15, 2014

How to Apply

Contact

Betsy Hall
Coordinator of Graduate Education
201 Carnegie Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-3070
brh3@psu.edu

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