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Welcome

We invite you to take a virtual look at our department, our college, and our university. You are also encouraged to explore this graduate program page, particularly the general description of graduate degrees, graduate faculty, graduate curriculum, and application procedures. You can also find out more about our Ph.D. students on the job market as well as the career paths of our recent Ph.D. graduates.

The Communication graduate program supports graduate study in four research areas:

• Intercultural Communication,
• Persuasion and Social Influence ,
• Public Relations,
• Rhetoric and Political Culture.

Students may also focus on health and science communication as their primary interest within one of the above four research areas.

A Commitment to Excellence

Our graduate research specialties are recognized nationally and internationally:

Intercultural Communication: #5 ranked program in the 2004 NCA Doctoral Reputational Study for scholarly quality of the faculty.

Public Relations: #1 ranked program in a 1990 Marquette University study, the 1996 US News and World Report rankings of PR programs, and the 2001 Baxter ranking, Graduate Study in Public Relations.

Rhetoric & Political Culture: #7 ranked program in rhetorical communication and #8 ranked program in political communication in the NCA Doctoral Reputational Study for scholarly quality of the faculty. The department was also the #1 ranked program in political communication for the quality of change in the last five years and the #2 ranked program in rhetorical communication for this same criterion.

If you have decided that our interests coincide with yours, you may wish to learn something about the Graduate School at the University of Maryland and to examine the Graduate Catalog. Still have questions? Feel free to contact the Graduate Director or any of our faculty that teach in your specific area of interest.

After informing yourself about our program and our application requirements and procedures, you may apply on-line. If you prefer paper copies of materials, write us at the address included.

If You Want More Details ...

Copies of the M.A. Handbook and the Ph.D. Handbook are available on-line.

We also have a listing of important upcoming conferences with paper submission deadlines as well as a listing of Communication journals available at University of Maryland libraries.
 

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