Step outside your classroom and into a world of opportunity.
There’s Always More to Learn
When you attend Northwestern’s MSC program, you are joining an incredible community of learners and experts.
Maximize your gains by engaging in MSC student experience programming to expand your network and gather new insights.
The MSC program hosts several Guest Speaker series, connecting students with industry leaders and experts active in the field.
Further develop your classroom learning by gaining new technical or leadership capabilities in one of our workshop series.
Engage in self-reflection, connect with academic advisors, get help building your skills, or use one of our tutorial series to get the most from your MSC.
Join us for our annual holiday party, spring happy hour, and summer BBQ.
You’ll have a chance to commemorate milestones along the way to graduation with faculty, staff and alumni.
Find New Ways to Learn During Your MSC Student Experience
Come during lunch to the Allen Center and hear guest speakers present their views on major national and global trends in communication management. These talks delve deeply into emerging issues which affect organizations and society.
Up your graphic design game and learn the basics of branding yourself or your business for a successful future. This series is a fun, hands-on introduction to professional design software and the basics of typography, color, and graphic design for print and web.
Gain insight into research on the necessity of self-exploration and reflection in advancing your CIQ, the impact of equity and inclusion on the bottom line and organizational culture, and what unconscious bias means and how it widens inequality gaps.
On Building A Personal Brand
“Business aside, how we conduct ourselves in every arena is going to be impacted by how we communicate. No matter what your profession is, the information you learn here is universal.”
Cassandra Libel ’19
Director of Emergency Management
Milwaukee County
Academic Support
Take advantage of the many enrichment activities offered by the MSC program and further advance your career and academic goals.
Draw connections between MSC courses and your goals for personal and academic growth — and connect with our advisors who’ll help you devise the best routes and electives to pursue while in the program.
Professional Development Practicum provides the opportunity for students to gain familiarity and expertise with a wide range of communication topics, practices, technologies, and trends that inform the practice of communication.
Engage in one of our enrichment tutorial series to get additional support and resources. These programs are available for students to access throughout the year.
On Obtaining Support Toward Personal Career Goals
“My classmates are people I rely on to fill things like open positions and board of director roles. If I need contacts in any industry, I have a network I can turn to. And I cherish the personal relationships I developed—dear friends from across the country who still get together regularly.”
Rebecca Selby ’18
VP of Marketing
Arctic Wolf
Explore program requirements and application details before applying.
Find out what you need to submit an application to the MSC program.
Learn more about the MSC program tuition and financial aid
Begin your online application, save your progress, and return to complete at any time.
Go beyond the classroom and enrich your experience among a community of learners.
