Job Placement
In a 2022 Nature study, Communication at the University of Minnesota ranked 11th nationally and in 93 percentiles in placing Ph.D. alumni in prestigious universities from 2011-2020. In the 2022 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, released by Shanghai Ranking, Communication at UMN ranked 22nd globally as a subject area. The College of Liberal Arts data shows that between 2011-2022, 87% of our graduate students stayed in academia upon graduation, with 31% in primary research positions and 46.3% in primarily teaching positions.
Graduates of our advanced degree programs go on to be successful in various fields, including but not limited to law, business, and academia. Our graduates have found employment at a variety of academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and for-profit businesses, including:
- Allegheny College
- Augsburg College
- Baird Holm LLC
- Butler University
- California State Stanislaus
- College of Charleston
- College of Saint Benedict
- Drake University
- Hamline University
- Louisiana State University
- Luther College
- Macalester College
- Marquette University
- Medtronic
- Metro State University (St Paul)
- Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Nevado Reno
- New York University
- Nintendo of America
- North Carolina State University
- Northwestern University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Saint Anselm College
- Saint John's University (Collegeville)
- Saint Xavier University
- Social Science Research Council
- Swarthmore College
- Texas A&M University
- Tulane University
- University of California - Santa Barbara
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado - Dever
- University of Idaho
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Memphis
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas, Austin
- University of Texas, Dallas
- Ursinus College
- Wake Forest University
- Willamette University
- Whitman College