Snapshot of the Department

• Academically acclaimed professors who are nationally respected for their innovative teaching, groundbreaking research and professional leadership.
• Technologically-advanced facilities
• Extensive alumni network
• Representation among some of the university’s top student leaders
• Universal application of learned communication skills
• For the past five years, 95 percent of the department’s students have been accepted into graduate programs
  
• In the last two years 98 percent of the students have been employed within two months after graduation
  
• The communication department is represented by a nationally respected and highly awarded forensic and debate team
• The communication faculty includes the author of an intercultural communication textbook; experts in the religious, political and corporate crisis communication fields; and planners for national communication organizations
• Faculty regularly participate in the university's Study Abroad Program, taking students to such places as Oxford, England, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Honduras