Degrees & Majors

The Collaborative and Experiential Learning Certificate allows students to enhance their education through real-world, team-based projects. By engaging in interdisciplinary initiatives, students apply their academic knowledge to hands-on experiences that build practical problem-solving and project management skills.

Graduates of this certificate are well-positioned for careers in consulting, project management, and product development. Their ability to collaborate across disciplines and tackle complex challenges makes them ideal candidates for leadership roles in business, technology, healthcare, and beyond.

The Georgia State University doctoral program in communication encourages students to engage in theoretically rigorous, methodologically sophisticated and ethically informed research. Our students are encouraged to undertake research that makes a difference and contributes substantively to the human understanding of how communication and media fundamentally shape and are shaped by an increasingly complex social world.

The curriculum draws upon social scientific and humanities-based theories and methods to prepare a diverse group of students for a job market that expects them to be literate across multiple sub-disciplinary domains of communication, in particular, media studies, rhetoric and speech communication.

Doctoral students work with graduate faculty who have gained national and international prominence across a diverse range of research areas, including:

• International media and politics
• Health communication
• Strategic communication
• Media effects and psychology
• Media representation and stereotypes
• Rhetorical studies
• Legal communication
• Journalism studies
• Media ethics
• Visual communication
• Environmental and critical animal studies
• Terrorism studies
• Public argument and deliberation
• Persuasion, public relations
• Interpersonal and intergroup communication
• Networks
• Ideological formations of power and resistance

The intellectual and creative energies activated by this rich and interdisciplinary activity within Atlanta’s dynamic urban location make the department an ideal place for students from around the world to prepare for a career in communication.

The Georgia State University B.A. in Journalism program offers three concentrations:

• Multimedia Reporting: Journalists are now sought for their multimedia skills as well as traditional writing and research skills. This program is designed to prepare journalism students to go into modern media workplaces, with a variety of experiential learning options as well as specialized reporting options.
• Public Relations: This program focuses on preparing students to work in public relations. Public relations professionals are advocates who critically analyze information to create content and campaigns for employers, employees, and clients.  Students will learn about techniques and campaigns. Experiential learning is the foundation of the coursework.
• Media & Society: This program is designed with an academic focus on communication, to prepare students for graduate study. Students can choose from communication courses focusing on a variety of types and areas of communication.

Our programs are designed to meet the media industries' demand for graduates who are critical thinkers who can produce news and publicity materials efficiently across a variety of platforms.

Students can get extra support at Georgia State's Journalism Lab which provides undergraduate journalism students with rough draft reviews, grammar assistance, help with AP style writing and video production assistance.

Students can also get practical experience through Georgia State University TV (GSUTV), the university’s partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting. As Georgia State’s media station, GSUTV provides students with training for creating broadcast content and airs special programs throughout Georgia and to a national network of PBS stations via cable, satellite, and digital platforms. GSUTV has won several Emmy and Telly Awards in recent years.

The dual MPH-Ph.D. program in Public Health and Community Psychology provides professional and graduate students with a solid and well-rounded background across both disciplines. Successful candidates will earn a master of public health degree (MPH) upon completion of the graduate health behavior & promotion concentration or the epidemiology concentration offered by the School of Public Health and a doctor of philosophy degree (Ph.D.) upon completion of the community psychology concentration. The program enables students to complete both degrees in less time than pursuing them separately.

Because health is determined by a complex interplay of biology, genetics, lifestyle, environmental factors, social and political conditions, multi-disciplinary professional expertise is needed to address the growing challenges to the public’s health and welfare. Community psychology and public health professionals attempt to address these conditions but take different yet complementary approaches.

Many community psychology professionals work within public health with a focus on fostering social change and activism, reducing oppression and promoting empowerment while public health professionals focus on assessing prevalence and incidence, identifying risk and protective factors, and changing individual health behavior.

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The Georgia State Department of Computer Science offers a combined bachelor of science and master of science degree in computer science, allowing students to save a year of time and tuition as compared to pursuing the degrees separately.

Students in the 4+1 program can enjoy several advantages, in addition to earning a bachelor’s and master’s in as little as five years:

• GRE is waived.
• Likely receive a tuition waiver for the year of graduate studies.
• Likely receive a stipend for the year of graduate studies.
• Use HOPE and/or Pell Grant funds for the 12 credit hours counting toward your B.S. and M.S. degrees.
• Increase your earning potential with the master’s level credential.

Find out more details about the M.S. in Computer Science program.