The School of Communications is a place of engaged learning for 1,000 students majoring in journalism, strategic communications, broadcast and new media, cinema, communication science, and sport and event management.
Highest benchmark
The School of Communications is nationally accredited, along with only 17 other communications programs at private universities across the United States. ACEJMC accreditation is the highest benchmark of program quality in journalism and communications.
Terrific Faculty
Our 40 faculty members have vast professional experience, including a Pulitzer Prize recipient. Class sizes are kept small so that students and teachers get to know each other quickly and work together closely.
Student media
The collegiate Emmy for student television newscast goes to… Elon. Our student newspaper won “Best of the Web.” Our public relations team finished in the top three in the nation. We offer rich and successful experiences for students.
Student Research
Our students analyze the important roles of media and communications in society. We publish the nation’s only undergraduate journal in the discipline – the Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications.
National leaders
Brian Williams of NBC News serves as national chair of our school’s Advisory Board. Professionals come to campus each semester to interact with Elon students, be guest speakers in classes, and share their expertise with the faculty.
Quality Internships
All students complete a professional internship before graduation. Our internship director guides Communications students into the workplace, and the school has a career services professional to help students in their transition to life after Elon.
Outstanding facilities
Students spend a lot of time in the communications school, and they appreciate our excellent facilities and technology. Take a video tour here, and we hope to see you on campus for a personal tour.
Nine years ago, the School of Communications first launched a course called Digital Media Convergence, then and now a staple of the program’s undergraduate curriculum. The required class was designed to give students a broad introduction to multimedia design and production across multiple content areas. Faculty were available to teach it. But no suitable textbook existed, according to associate professor Vic Costello.
Lee Bush, associate professor in the School of Communications, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors for EarthShare North Carolina.
Janna Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications, was a keynote speaker at the “Human Internet: Technologies Creating a More Human Web” spring research symposium.
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