Jandoli School of Communication
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An ACEJMC accredited program
The Jandoli School is one of just 19 private university journalism and mass communication programs accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
This accreditation, based on such standards as curriculum and instruction, faculty, scholarship, facilities, student services, diversity and inclusiveness, is outside evidence of the strength of our programs, and recognition of the work we have been doing for more than 75 years.
8 'working' majors for undergraduate students
The hallmark of our undergraduate programs is experiential learning. Each major requires 400 hours of internships.
- ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Learn how organizations build trust, shape their reputation and connect with audiences through strategic communication. Students explore branding, media planning, public relations, digital marketing and campaign development while gaining real-world experience that prepares them for careers across the communications industry.
- BROADCAST JOURNALISM
Develop the skills to report, produce and deliver compelling stories across television, streaming and digital platforms. Students gain hands-on experience covering news, conducting interviews and creating multimedia content while learning how journalism continues to evolve in a rapidly changing media landscape.
- COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY
Discover how communication can inspire meaningful change within communities and organizations. This program examines the role of advocacy, public engagement and ethical leadership while preparing students to work with nonprofit organizations, community groups, government agencies and mission driven initiatives.
- CONTENT CREATION
Bring ideas to life through engaging digital content designed for today's audiences. Students combine storytelling, visual communication, multimedia production and social media strategy to create content that informs, entertains and connects across a wide variety of platforms.
- JOURNALISM
Learn how to research, report and tell stories that inform the public with accuracy and integrity. Students strengthen their interviewing, writing and multimedia reporting skills while exploring the important role journalists play in serving communities and promoting informed decision making.
- MEDIA STUDIES
Examine the influence of media on culture, politics, business and everyday life through an interdisciplinary curriculum. Students analyze emerging technologies, media trends and audience behavior while tailoring coursework to match their individual academic and career interests.
- SPORTS MEDIA
Turn your passion for sports into professional communication skills by exploring sports broadcasting, reporting, storytelling and digital media. Students gain experience covering athletic events and producing sports focused content while preparing for opportunities throughout the sports industry.
- VIDEO PRODUCTION
Transform creative concepts into professional visual stories using industry standard production techniques. Students develop skills in directing, filming, editing and post production while creating video content for entertainment, marketing, education, corporate communications and digital media.
Students who are interested in communication but uncertain about a major may postpone that decision as an "undeclared" communication major.
You will take core courses required for all Jandoli School majors as you explore the worlds of journalism, social and digital media, broadcasting, advertising, corporate communication, public relations, sports media, video production, media studies and more.
Your faculty adviser will help you plan your future and determine which communication major is the best fit for you.
Minor in Communication
A helps students strengthen their written, verbal and digital communication skills while gaining a deeper understanding of how messages influence audiences. It complements a wide range of majors and prepares graduates to communicate effectively in professional, academic, and community settings.
Minor in Leadership
Open to all degree-seeking students regardless of their majors, the minor in Leadership prepares
students for leadership roles with a curriculum focused on effective communication, trustworthiness, motivation and effective delegation.
3 fully online graduate programs
- MASTER'S IN MARKETING COMMUNICATION
Master the art of strategic storytelling and creative thinking while demonstrating strength in strategic planning and campaign analysis. Specialize in content marketing or integrated marketing communication.
- MASTER'S IN DIGITAL JOURNALISM
This program prepares you to be competitive in today's modern news landscape by equipping you with the skills to develop original stories for traditional and digital media, based on the highest journalistic standards. You will learn to connect with audiences on a wide range of platforms by incorporating photography, video, design and audio. Students take part in Master Class sessions with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and accomplished Jandoli School alums.
- MASTER'S IN SPORTS JOURNALISM
Learn the skills necessary to become a modern-day sports journalist, combining traditional news reporting with a wide variety of digital competencies, including social media and storytelling, podcasts, and mobile experiences. Students take part in Master Class sessions with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and accomplished Jandoli School alums.
Early assurance programs
Qualified high school seniors can earn guaranteed placement, as incoming freshmen, in one of two master's degree programs.
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Early Assurance Journalism
Qualified high school seniors are guaranteed placement in either of two online graduate programs:
- M.A. in Digital Journalism
- M.A. in Sports Journalism
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Early Assurance Marketing Communication
Qualified high school seniors are guaranteed placement in our M.A. in Marketing Communication program.
Learn more about these early assurance programs.
Our grads are skilled, knowledgeable, in demand
Above all, our students learn to write well, the foundation on which every successful communication career is built.
As a student in the Jandoli School, you will learn how to gather, analyze and communicate information, skills valued by virtually every occupation. We teach these skills within the context of a broad liberal arts background, and, in keeping with our Franciscan tradition, we pride ourselves in weaving ethics into each of our courses.
It's no surprise, then, that our graduates work in a variety of professions: journalism, public relations, advertising, sports media, broadcasting, corporate communications, law, government and more. Our professors have hundreds of years of experience in these areas and others.
Experiential learning: Put your education to work
From a 400-hour internship requirement for all Jandoli School majors, to numerous opportunities to work in campus media, to a course in which students serve as a marketing communications consultancy with real local business clients, experiential learning has long been a hallmark of a communications degree from ΒιΆΉΣ³».
Students run a highly ranked campus radio station, publish weekly print and daily online newspapers, broadcast a weekly news program, cover SBU athletics on campus, and publish the oldest consecutively published student literary magazine in the country.
Internships are important learning experiences and one of the key reasons our graduates step so smoothly right from graduation into starting positions with key communications industry firms.
Jandoli School Internships
Join major broadcasters on Radio Row at the Super Bowl.
Be part of the team presenting live TV broadcasts of Division I sports for ESPN+.
It's just a sampling of the on-campus opportunities for students to hone their communication skills.
- Students cover the community for TAPInto Greater Olean, a local news website and the only university among 70 franchised TAPinto news sites in New Jersey, New York and Florida;
- Students produce and present SBU-TV newscasts on Spectrum cable throughout Western New York;
- Our student radio station is one of the Top 10 college stations in the U.S.;
- Our student newspaper, The Bona Venture (The BV), has been publishing since 1926.
Campus Media
The Jandoli School of Communication boasts the Koop Broadcast lab, a newsroom and fully functioning television production studio.
Broadcast Facilities
The national American Advertising Federation gives colleges and universities the opportunity to create a working advertising agency on campus that competes in the National Student Advertising Competition, known as the College World Series of Advertising.
The SBU chapter, Kwerkworks, consists of 30 students, half of them Jandoli School majors, half marketing majors. Students can take a class for marketing credit in the School of Business or as an advertising class in the Jandoli School. Students must submit a resume and be interviewed for a position on the team.
This course serves as the capstone advertising class, providing students with the opportunity to design a strategic advertising and media campaign for a corporate sponsor.
Students present the finished campaign to various industry executives at AAF's National Student Advertising Competition in the spring semester.
Go to the Kwerkworks application
A record of accomplishment
New York Times columnist Dan Barry (right), a 1980 SBU graduate, says every time he sits down to write, one of his former SBU professors has his ear, "urging me to find a better word ... to seek the electricity that can be sparked by language."
Our graduates work in a variety of professions and have won many of journalism's highest honors. In addition to five Pulitzer Prize winners, we have duPont, Peabody, Emmy, Sports Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award winners, a National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame inductee, and National and New York Sportswriter of the Year winners.
We have more winners than any other school in the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholarship essay contest, which invites participation from only the strongest journalism programs in the nation.
A degree from the Jandoli School of Communication means not only that you have learned from the best, but that you're prepared to claim your spot among them.
Our graduates work across the nation and around the globe, as writers, editors, producers and communications specialists for some of the most prestigious and influential institutions in the communications industry today: The New York Times, the Moscow Times, NBC News, Bank of America, MTV, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.
Distinguished Graduates
ΒιΆΉΣ³» the Jandoli School of Communication
Meet Aaron Chimbel, dean of the Jandoli School, and read about our mission, our learning objectives, and our promise to our majors.
Plus, learn about:
- Innovation: The Jandoli School digital magazine
- Jandoli School scholarships, events and awards, including the prestigious Mark Hellinger and Woman of Promise awards
- The Jandoli Institute, created in 2019 to explore today's media landscape in an effort to help ensure that media continues to play a constructive role in our nation's democracy
ABOUT THE JANDOLI SCHOOL
Siena/SBU Annual Sports Fanship Survey
ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Jandoli School of Communication and the Siena College Research Institute again teamed up to conduct the popular βAmerican Sports Fanship Survey.β Findings from the three-topic nationwide survey were released earlier this year. Each title below links to its full report.
March Madness β March 16
Sports Betting β April 13
Sports Fanship and Issues in Sport β April 20
Jul 27, 2026 | Students in ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs six-week Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program at the University of Oxfordβs Trinity College conducted research for a conference presentation on Stevie Wonderβs βSongs in the Key of Lifeβ album.
Jun 12, 2026 | Hate crimes, homelessness, taxes, housing and energy were among the topics fact-checked by ΒιΆΉΣ³» students during a PolitiFact Workshop conducted during the spring 2026 semester.
May 18, 2026 | ΒιΆΉΣ³» recognized 119 students at its Honors and Awards Ceremony, held Friday, May 15, at Reilly Center Arena.