Build Your Skills. Define Your Focus. Elevate Your Future.
To be competitive in today’s market, you need to be the most versatile player on the team. Our core courses build a strong foundation in communication, making you adaptable across industries. Then, you choose a concentration—an area of specialty that gives you a competitive edge in the career path you want to pursue.
Find Your Focus: Areas of Concentration
Media Communication
Are you passionate about storytelling and bringing ideas to life through media?
If you enjoy:
- Visual storytelling through video and audio production,
- Capturing live events and directing broadcasts,
- And crafting engaging content for different media platforms,
Then the Media Communication concentration is the right fit for you!
Learn skills in:
- Operating high-end camera and audio equipment
- Producing, editing, and distributing video and audio content
- Creating engaging podcasts from concept to final production
- Directing live sports and news programs
- Developing compelling storytelling across media platforms
Digital Communication
Do you thrive in the digital space and want to shape the way people engage with content?
If you enjoy:
- Designing creative and interactive media
- Managing social platforms and online communities
- Developing digital campaigns with impact
Then the Digital Communication concentration is the right fit for you!
Learn skills in:
- Crafting professional digital media content
- Designing engaging and user-friendly web visuals
- Navigating and managing social media platforms for business
- Producing high-quality podcasts for digital audiences
- Building and executing digital marketing strategies
Interpersonal Communication
Are you interested in understanding human interaction and fostering better communication?
If you enjoy:
- Navigating personal and professional relationships effectively
- Exploring how communication shapes identity and culture
- Helping individuals and teams improve collaboration
Then the Interpersonal Communication concentration is the right fit for you!
Learn skills in:
- Communicating effectively in personal and professional settings
- Understanding and improving human interaction and behavior
- Analyzing cultural, gender, and identity influences on communication
- Developing strategies for conflict resolution and negotiation
- Applying research-based methods to improve family communication
Organizational and Strategic Communication
Are you passionate about helping organizations run more smoothly and communicate effectively?
If you enjoy:
- Developing strategies for impactful messaging
- Helping organizations respond to crises
- Planning and executing communication initiatives
- Leading teams and managing public perception
Then the Organizational and Strategic Communication concentration is the right fit for you!
Learn skills in:
- Managing crisis communication and organizational reputation
- Planning and managing large-scale events with strategic messaging
- Crafting persuasive speeches and engaging presentations
- Developing high-impact public relations campaigns
- Leading internal and external communication strategies for organizations
Certificates: Specialize Even Further
Enhance your skills and stand out with a communication certificate! Each certificate requires just 9 credits of specialized coursework in a focused area:
- Audio Production Certificate (Coming Fall 2025!)
- Media Production Communication Certificate
- Organizational Communication Certificate
- Public Relations Communication Certificate
- Social Media Communication Certificate
Top Reasons to Study Communication at UToledo
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Professional skills.
Practice professional communication skills in real-world settings. Produce news for a local TV channel, film a live sports broadcast for ESPN, create a PR campaign for real clients, host events, design social media campaigns, or work for local media companies, sports teams, and non-profit organizations.
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Industry contacts.
Learn from faculty with experience working in the field who can help you build industry connections before you graduate.
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Build your own network.
Join a student chapter of one of UToledo’s media and communication organizations, such as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Public Relations Student Society of America, 88.3 WXUT Radio, or the UToledo National Communication Association’s Lambda Pi Eta honors society.
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Customize your degree.
Communication offers four skill-related concentrations that connect you to the career you care about: digital communication, interpersonal communication, media communication, and strategic/organizational communication. You can also choose a certificate in social media or pair your degree with other programs like Art and graphic design. Our dedicated academic advisors can help you make a custom path!
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Internships.
Our students intern all over Toledo and beyond! Toledo Mud Hens, Toledo Pride, the Walleye, department stores, school districts, radio stations, cable stations, news stations, music festivals, performance venues, local schools, and a wide range of companies: these are just some of the opportunities to intern as a Communication major. The city is your classroom.
What jobs can I get with a Communication degree?
- Advertising account executive
- Campaign manager
- Copywriter
- Director of communications
- Event planner
- Hospitality manager
- Human resource manager
- Lobbyist
- Promotions and marketing director
- Public relations specialist
- Recruiter
- Sales representative
- Science communicator
- Social media strategist
- Speechwriter
Hands-On Learning Opportunities
At UToledo, we take you beyond the textbooks and the four walls of a classroom. These real-world experiences are what help our graduates gain professional skills and land jobs.
Internships
Faculty members in the Department of Communication have ties to local communication companies and media outlets. The department often assists undergraduates in finding internships, either on or off campus.
Internships help you:
- Gain practical experience
- Build your resume
- Refine your skills
- Cultivate contacts
Research
UToledo is known for its undergraduate research opportunities. Start as early as your freshman year. Work with faculty who enjoy collaborating with students.
Our Office of Undergraduate Research can:
- Connect you to faculty mentors and projects
- Help you find funding
- Help you present your research at conferences and other events
Study Abroad
Travel, experience new cultures and meet new people — all while earning college credit.
UToledo's Education Abroad Office can help you find the perfect opportunity. You can apply for grants, scholarships and financial aid to help fund study abroad.
- Semester at Sea
- Short-term, summer and faculty-led trips
- Direct exchange programs with other universities
- Teach English abroad
- Global health program (med student clerkships)
- Rocket Kids (work with youth around the world)
Rocket Kids Semester
The Rocket Kids program offers University students a fall, spring or summer semester internship providing recreational programming to U.S. military youth while experiencing the world in locations such as Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands.
Rocket Kids interns will gain practical experience in programming, leadership, health and wellness, creative arts, performing arts, cultural and literary arts, team and individual sports, adventure and outdoor recreation and STEM education.
On-campus and Part-time Jobs
- Learn skills that prepare you for a career after graduation.
- Build your resume.
- Earn money.
If you want to work, there are plenty of opportunities on campus and at businesses near campus. If you demonstrate financial need, you may qualify for the federal work-study program.
Student Organizations
Our most successful students get involved.
UToledo has 400+ student organizations that will help you:
- Make friends.
- Build your resume.
- Network.
- Be a leader.
- Serve your community.
- Have fun!
Tuition and Scholarships
Most new students don't pay full price. 94% of new UToledo students receive scholarships or other state and federal aid.
Keep in mind: Your cost will vary by college, program and a host of other options. This is the average amount full-time students pay per year.
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Honors College
The Jesup Scott Honors College at The University of Toledo offer our best and brightest the resources and opportunities needed to unlock your fullest potential. Whether you aspire following graduation to cure disease, innovate technology, advance statecraft, redefine markets, or express creatively, together we can fuel vibrant and promising tomorrows.
Honors students come from a variety of countries, backgrounds and cultures. While we may bond over a tough class, our differences make us blossom.
Benefits of Honors
The Honors College is a community of academically gifted students from all majors on campus. Students take unique Honors classes taught by dedicated Honors faculty and complete an Honors thesis or capstone project in their major, earning the Honors medallion at graduation within their normal program of study. Honors students are challenged to think more deeply and broadly about what they learn. With special academic, cultural, and professional development opportunities, their education extends beyond the classroom.
Honors students can also choose exclusive housing in the Honors Academic Village or President's Hall.
Explore more about what the Honors College can offer you as a budding professional, inquisitive scholar, and engaged person.
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