Communications with an international bent?

College Search & Selection
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<p>My son is currently finishing up second year of community college and we are trying to pick a four-year college for him. His intended major is Communications with an international bent. He speaks French because he went to school in France from Grade 1 through Grade 6. He wants to do a Study Abroad program in Spain so that he can enter the job market as a Communications major with fluent French and Spanish. </p>

<p>We live in northern New Jersey and we are looking for a medium-sized school within a two-hour drive of home. He is about a B-average student.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any advice on either schools or programs that we should investigate? Many thanks</p>

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<p>Don't know about the international bent. If you can stretch it to 3 hours, for communications and his gpa I would look into Towson, Quinnipiac, Hofstra (an hour away-people really are impressed with their communications program), Marist, Ithaca (further than you would have liked and can be competitive depending upon major selected within the school of communications).</p>

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<p>jduffy940 yes, check out Arcadia University in Glenside, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia).</p>

<p>They have a WONDERFUL communications program, and when D went last year to check into it the dean of the department described it as "Global Communications". That dept also has a mandatory study abroad as part of its program. </p>

<p>Small/intimate campus, nice people, good scholarships without additional paperwork.</p>

<p>Rolling admissions.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.arcadia.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.arcadia.edu/&lt;/a>
<a href="http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/communications/cap_good1_content.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/communications/cap_good1_content.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Best to your son!</p>

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<p>Clark (Communication with concentration in Global Dimensions)
<a href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/cc/undergraduate.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.clarku.edu/departments/cc/undergraduate.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Juniata
<a href="http://www.juniata.edu/departments/comm/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.juniata.edu/departments/comm/&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.juniata.edu/departments/is/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.juniata.edu/departments/is/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Syracuse
<a href="http://vpa.syr.edu/index.cfm/page/communication-and-rhetorical-studies-department%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://vpa.syr.edu/index.cfm/page/communication-and-rhetorical-studies-department&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Ursinus
<a href="http://www.ursinus.edu/content.asp?page=AcademicPrograms/MediaCommunicationStudies.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ursinus.edu/content.asp?page=AcademicPrograms/MediaCommunicationStudies.htm&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.ursinus.edu/content.asp?page=AcademicPrograms/politics_and_international.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ursinus.edu/content.asp?page=AcademicPrograms/politics_and_international.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I applied to study abroad through Arcadia. They have great programs.</p>