Contact

Newhouse Contacts

Marth Coria
Director, Graduate Programs
315-443-5749
macoria@syr.edu

Carolyn Hedges
Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Programs
315-443-9255
cdhedges@syr.edu

iSchool Contact

Students Services and Academic Advising
315-443-6137

Overview

This five-year program combines a bachelor's degree in the School of Information Studies together with an MA or MS degree in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Admissions Requirements

Students considering this program are strongly encouraged to speak to an academic advisor as soon as possible upon entering Syracuse University. Completing the program in five years requires careful planning. To be eligible for admission to the program, students must have been admitted to the iSchool according to normal procedure. The decision on whether to admit the student into Newhouse will be based primarily on the student's undergraduate academic record.

Students in their junior year or who have completed 60 credits may apply to the Newhouse graduate programs through the 4+1. Students must have a 3.25 GPA to be accepted into the program. 

Students in this program will complete all the requirements for a bachelor's degree and for a Newhouse master's degree in five years. Students will receive the bachelor's after four years and the master's after the fifth year. Courses required for each of the available master's degree programs are provided below.

4+1 Combined Requirements

The crossover courses for the 4+1 combined degree are as follows:

Advanced Media Management, MS

MMI 606 Strategic Content Management (3)
Approved Newhouse/Whitman elective with academic advisor and (if relevant) Newhouse graduate program director (3)

Advertising, MS

ADV 612 Strategic Brain: Account Planning and Research (3)
COM 697 Advertising & Public Relations Law (3)

Broadcast and Digital Journalism, MS

COM 647 Applied Media Research (3)
COM 698 Media Law (3)

Magazine, News and Digital Journalism, MA

COM 698 Media Law (3)
Approved Newhouse elective chosen with academic advisor and Newhouse graduate program director. (3)

Media Studies, MA

COM 697 Advertising & Public Relations Law OR COM 698 Media Law OR TRF 637 Telecommunications Law&Policy (3)
Approved Newhouse elective chosen with academic advisor and Newhouse graduate program director (3)

Multimedia, Photography and Design, MS

COM 698 Media Law (3)
VIS 602 Essentials for Visual Communicators (3 1-credit modules)

Music Business, MS
MBU 602 Introduction to Music Business (3)
MBU 644 Diversity and the Music Industry (3)
TRF 654 Music Recording (3)

Public Relations, MS

COM 697 Advertising & Public Relations Law (3)
PRL 530 Special Topics in Public Relations (2 1-credit modules)

Television, Radio and Film, MS

MMI 628 Entertainment Innovation & Entrepreneurship (3)
TRF 637 Telecommunications Law&Policy (3)