10 Part-time Communication BA Degree Programs

AUR’s BA in Communication Digital Media offers a mix of theoretical foundations and practical know-how for you to thrive in the global communications industry, from social media to PR, online journalism, and advertising.

Strategic Communication Honours facilitate both theoretical and applied competence in strategic communication. Specialized knowledge of strategic communication theory facilitates the ability to critically review, consolidate and extend strategic communication theory to create appropriate responses and to resolve abstract contextual strategic communication problems.

Communication is the backbone of industry and employers increasingly list communication skills as the heart of advancement, promotion, and leadership opportunities. EKU’s 100% online communication studies degree provides students with the hands-on, practical learning needed to become creative, effective communicators and successfully navigate our complex global society. Graduates are prepared to take on key positions in business, sales, human service agencies, and nonprofit agencies, or to pursue law school or other graduate studies.

The Communication program at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown will prepare you with real-world skills for highly in-demand positions in diverse fields, from business to journalism to event coordination to creative director.

Major employers, recruiting firms, and the U.S. Department of Labor agree that communication is one of the top skills today’s job candidates need. UT Permian Basin’s online Bachelor of Arts in Communication program covers a diverse range of communication types, empowering you with in-demand skills you can apply in practically any industry. Our BA in communication emphasizes written and spoken communication and offers a comprehensive foundation in this multifaceted field, from the origins of rhetoric in Western thought to an analysis of modern communication media. Through our program, you’ll develop critical thinking and research skills and acquire practical knowledge in topics such as public relations, small group communication, crisis communication, and interpersonal communication. Our program also offers an exploration of the dark side of communication and demonstrates the critical importance of an ethical approach. Our convenient, collaborative online program enables you to complete classwork on your own schedule, anywhere. Online communication tools ensure your professors and classmates are always within reach to help guide and inspire you along the way.

Social communication explores how information is perceived, transmitted, and understood. It also looks at the impact on society of various means of communication. Social communication includes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of communication.

Through a robust curriculum that ranges from self-awareness and reflection to public communication in groups and larger systems, you will learn how communication impacts organizational success and shapes every aspect of your social life. You will be equipped to strategically develop and analyze messages in various contexts, including interpersonal relationships, business applications, public campaigns, advocacy, and law.

The Bachelor of Arts in Communication – Public Relations (PR) degree program will teach you to help organizations build and maintain beneficial relationships with their audiences. You will learn the history, theory, and techniques of PR, developing important skills in writing and design, research and planning, critical thinking, ethical decision making, and public speaking.

We’ve never had more tools at our disposal to communicate with each other than we do right now. Communicating effectively, though – and being able to command the attention of an audience at a time when everybody is trying to get their own message out there, too – becomes more challenging all the time. You’ll gain those skills at Manhattanville, where our curriculum emphasizes media studies, including media history, theory, criticism, law, ethics, and digital production. And you’ll be just 30 miles from New York City, home to countless print, broadcast, and online media outlets. Manhattanville students routinely put the lessons they learned here to work: Our students have recently interned or have been hired by ABC News, ABC News Radio, CNN America, CNBC, Rolling Stone Magazine, Nickelodeon, The Colbert Report, Sirius XM Radio, The Creative Group, The Creators Project, Seventeen Magazine, Music Choice, and Viacom.

Would you like to better understand the complexity of the human mind and spirit? Do you want to experience a life of high-quality relationships with yourself, others, the world around you, the transcendent? Are you interested in psychological and spiritual development, social justice, and the meaning of life? If so, Saint Paul University offers you an Honours Bachelors of Arts with Specialization in Human Relations and Spirituality.