Master of Arts in Communication

UND’s online MA in Communication includes a professional track alongside other academic routes. This profile focuses on the 30-credit professional pathway.

Academic focus and alternatives

The curriculum’s communication, organizational and analytical themes make the degree worth investigating when you want to explain how messages, relationships and information operate in an organization or community. Read the professional-track requirements before selecting individual appealing courses. A degree plan needs a coherent progression, not simply a collection of topics with communication in their titles.

Distinguish the professional track from a PhD-en-route arrangement and an accelerated undergraduate pathway. They serve different starting points. If your goal is doctoral research, ask directly which route and research preparation are appropriate. If your goal is applied communication work, ask what the professional completion work requires and how its feedback develops your practice.

A practical way to test curriculum fit

As a hypothetical exercise, describe a communication breakdown in a project without identifying private colleagues or clients. Identify which evidence could explain the breakdown and how you would evaluate an intervention. That helps you ask whether the curriculum’s methods and organizational emphasis address your actual learning gap.

Structured facts and scope

Preparation and admission

Gather writing, analytical and project examples from your preparation, and check the current admissions instructions. A no-GRE statement removes one testing task; it does not establish that every applicant is academically ready or that the same materials apply to every track.

For the researched Professional track, applicants need a bachelor’s degree in communication or a related field from an accredited institution. The published GPA threshold is 2.75 for undergraduate work, or 3.0 for previous graduate work. Graduate School requirements, including applicable English-language evidence, also apply.

Online study in practice

The professional track is described as online without campus attendance and with flexible timing. Verify assessment windows, meetings and the expected pace in the current plan. Do not extend the professional-track format to the PhD-related or accelerated route without checking it separately.

Price basis and remaining cost questions

The 30-credit online professional track is the route described here. PhD-en-route and accelerated undergraduate arrangements are distinct routes within the same credential.

Questions that could change the decision

• Which professional-track projects connect social data, science communication or organizational communication with my goal?
• How are assessment deadlines and interaction organized in the otherwise flexible online professional track?

Official next step

Read the university’s current program page and confirm the route, remaining requirements and entry-term price. Keep written answers to unresolved questions with your comparison. Admission, funding, transfer credit, employment and professional eligibility are separate decisions; this profile does not guarantee any of them.