Media, CUlture, and COmmunications Program

missamericanpie
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:48:12 +0000

That’s the thing. MCC isn’t a major where there’s one set path. It’s not like marketing or film or accounting. MCC majors end up doing a lot of things. They go to law school, into public relations, on to PhDs (like me), into film/television/marketing. If you’re thinking of going into a lot of debt for a communications degree, don’t do it. The economy isn’t stable enough to bank on the fact that an MCC degree will be lucrative enough to pay back mountains of debt.

We have alumni roundtables within the department, and alums have gone on to working at CBS, Google, BBDO, and other high-powered companies. BUT, they all got those jobs before the economy tanked and the media industry shrank. So, it’s a crapshoot.