2009 graduation: Chul-Joo Lee, Nicole Maurantonio, Susana Ramirez, Bill Herman and Magdalena Wojcieszak

Graduate Program

Our Ph.D. program was rated #1 in the nation by the National Communication Association Doctoral Reputation Study in the areas of Critical-Cultural Communication, Health Communication, Mass Communication, and Political Communication. Penn Annenberg operates like a research institute in terms of the intensity of work that takes place here and the strong collaborations between faculty and students. The School is also a crossroads where scholars and students from throughout the world come to share their ideas. These connections give Annenberg students a variety of opportunities to interact both formally and informally with some of the most exciting intellectual talent in the world.

Students typically find themselves studying not only here at Penn, but also throughout Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Our Center for Global Communication Studies and Scholars Program in Culture and Communication run stimulating programs overseas, and our students receive funding to present papers at major conferences at home and abroad. Communication is a global discipline, so the learning experience at Annenberg mirrors that dimension.

Recent student presentations have been made at the conventions of the International Communication Association Conference (ICA); the National Communication Association (NCA); the American Public Health Association; the Organization for Study of Communication, Language, and Gender; the International Association for Study of Popular Music; the Association for Education and Journalism of Mass Communication; the Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts; the Visual Communication Conference; the Popular Culture Conference; the International Association of Mass Communication Research and the American Political Science Association.