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Broadcast & Electronic Communication

Shape the Way We View the World

TV, radio and web, on my! As a broadcasting major, you’ll have immediate access to Marquette’s broadcast facility that includes two TV studios, nine video editing suites, three audio studios, computer graphics platforms and advanced interactive digital equipment.

Study in a major media market. Direct your studies toward a career in broadcast journalism, production, writing, programming, management, audience research, sales, promotion, or alternative media. Milwaukee is a top-35 market—small enough for you to get your foot in the door, big enough to prepare you for any media market in the country.

So you want to be a star. Host your own radio show, be a newscaster, produce television shows or shoot your own short film. As a broadcasting major, all this and more is yours when you get involved with MUTV, Marquette Radio and our faculty-led projects.

Broadcast news. Marquette's broadcasting major is the only accredited program at a Catholic school in the continental United States.

You have the technology. From your first year, you have access to Marquette’s recently revamped broadcast facility, with two TV studios, nine video editing suites, three audio studios, computer graphics platforms and advanced interactive digital equipment.

Get involved. Our campus radio and TV stations are entirely student-run. Host your own radio show, be a newscaster, produce television shows—or use communication technology in your own original way.

You want internships? Real-world experience, crucial to professional placement after graduation, is yours through internships in Milwaukee and other major media markets such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Marquette's broadcasting majors have worked with radio and television stations throughout the country, as well as programs like ABC World News Tonight, Entertainment Tonight, Late Show with David Letterman, All My Children, The Young and the Restless and 20/20.

Sample internships
Students have worked with radio and television stations in Milwaukee as well as other major markets such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta. And they’ve interned on programs like ABC World News Tonight, Entertainment Tonight, Late Show with David Letterman, All My Children, The Young and the Restless and 20/20.

Recent employers
  • CNN
  • ESPN
  • Fox Network Systems
  • Fox Sports Net
  • HBO
  • NBC
  • The Oprah Winfrey Show
  • E! Entertainment Television

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