BA Communication Studies

Knowing how to reach the right audience with the right message is crucial in today’s highly connected world. As a communications studies major, you’ll explore how to bring people and organizations together through effective writing, public speaking, interpersonal communication and more.

Courses in the communications studies major range from social media strategy to conflict management and are meant to prepare students for a variety of meaningful careers in sales, event planning, human resources, corporate communications, promotions, marketing communications, industrial relations, training or management.

Xavier University, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is nationally recognized as a top university by U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes. 98 percent of our students, including those in the communication studies major, are working, volunteering or in graduate school within six months of graduation (Class of 2021).