Career Opportunities for COJO Students
Proud alumni and friends of the School of Communication and Journalism continually send internships, full and part-time job announcements and summer job announcements for which our students can apply.
Find more opportunities with these campus resources.
Campus Resources
Potential Journalism Jobs:
- Assignment editor
- Audience engagement producer
- Branding communications manager
- Business reporter
- Campaign director
- Communities editor
- Consumer marketing
- Copy editor
- Corporate communications manager
- Creative projects manager
- Deputy audience director
- Digital executive producer
- Digital media manager
- Director media entrepreneurship
- Director of communications
- Director of digital news product
- Director of social content strategy
- Director social media
- Editor
- Features reporter
- Fundraising manager
- Interactive/digital manager
- Investigative reporter
- Investor relations
- Lobbyist
- Magazine editor
- Magazine writer
- Marketing director
- Media innovation executive
- Media outreach manager
- Media relations director
- Mobile editor
- Multimedia reporter
- News reporter
- Online editor
- Opinion editor
- Page designer
- Photographer
- Political reporter
- Producer
- Publication management
- Radio reporter
- Researcher
- Social media analyst
- Social media coordinator
- Social strategy editor
- Sports reporter
- Television anchor
- Television news photographer
- Television reporter
- Video coordinator
Potential Communication Jobs:
Our alumni are not only successful in the academic realm, but in the professional world as well. Graduates of our program have worked in some of the following positions:
- Account coordinator for a strategic marketing company
- Communication specialist
- Corporate training specialist and systems interactive manager
- Director of community relations and alumni
- Director of business
- Director of content acquisition
- Executive director
- Facilities coordinator, Office of Classroom Management
- Corporate training specialist and systems interactive manager
- Facilities coordinator, Office of Classroom Management
- Director of programs for children with special needs
- Technical programs manager
- Senior risk manager
- Several self-employment business owners
A Communication Studies degree also provides a great foundation for career tracks in:
- Banking
- Human resources
- Law school
- Marketing
- Medical school
- Public relations
- Sales (agriculture products and services; pharmaceuticals)
- Seminary
Potential Jobs in Advertising or Public Relations:
- Account director
- Content designer
- Copy writer
- Development director
- Event planner
- Executive assistant
- Marketing and communication specialist
- Multimedia producer
- Photographer
- Policy adviser
- Public information officer
- Public relations manager
- Sales account executive
- Speechwriter
- Video coordinator
- Web designer
- Web producer