Recent Graduates and Early-Career Professionals

MACT is not only for established communications professionals. It can also be a strong fit if you are a recent graduate or early-career professional beginning to build your career in communications, media, digital strategy, public engagement, or a related field.
MACT gives you a way to gain a competitive edge while continuing to work and develop professional experience. Because the program can be completed part-time, you can keep building your career while pursuing graduate study in communication, technology, digital media, and organizational change.

In MACT, you will strengthen skills and perspectives that employers increasingly value, including strategic communication, applied research, digital literacy, critical thinking, ethical judgment, and an understanding of how emerging technologies are changing organizations and publics.

The cohort model is also a major benefit. You will learn alongside mid-career and established communications professionals from a wide range of sectors. This creates valuable opportunities to exchange ideas, build professional confidence, expand your network, and learn from classmates who bring substantial workplace experience into the program.

For recent graduates, MACT can help bridge the transition from undergraduate study to professional advancement. For early-career professionals, it can provide the graduate-level credential, applied knowledge, and professional community to help you move forward with greater confidence and direction.