Our faculty, staff, and students hail from all over the world, and it is not unusual to hear many different languages spoken in our hallways. Graduate students comprise a majority of our international students.SJMC undergraduate students come from across the nation, from the corn fields of rural Wisconsin to the bustling downtowns of Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago.We all represent perspectives across the political spectrum, practice different religious traditions, come from a range of income classes, and hold a variety of abilities and disabilities.Our intellectual diversity informs all of our work. We prepare our students for jobs across media and communication fields — from marketing agencies to newsrooms, from non-profit outreach to research work in think tanks, universities, and governments. We have world-renowned specialists in media history, media law, media effects, health communication, journalism studies, and political communication, and are regularly ranked in the top five of the world for communication research.