Why study telecommunications (TCOM) at Ball State? Here are the top 10 reasons you should:
10. You get a little giddy when you think of turning your passion for film and/or television, news, multimedia, or sales promotion into a career.
9. Growing up, you spent your free time critiquing Steven Spielberg, idolizing Barbara Walters, or thinking Rupert Murdoch was a genius.
8. You like your name and want people to know it.
7. You’d jump at the chance to choose from a number of student organizations, such as Cardinal Filmworks, News Link Indiana, NewsWorks, or the Emmy Award-winning live local entertainment magazine program Connections to help hone your craft, build your portfolio, and breed lasting friendships.
6. You think that interning at a major media organization, for credit, would be a pretty sweet gig.
5. Spending the majority of your academic career in the Ball Communications Building and the David Letterman Communication and Media Building, two of the top communications facilities in the country (read: fully loaded and state-of-the-art), sounds pretty cool.
4. You want to work alongside and learn from professors who spent time out in the world doing amazing things such as hosting Good Morning America, writing books, and helping transform the world of communications.
3. You think being recognized by a media crtic as one of the top broadcasting programs in the nation, winning 18 regional Emmys and 50 nominations as well as a couple of Student Academy Awards is pretty impressive.
2. You’d rather take a seat behind the news desk of our fully operational newsroom, write news stories that appear on MSNBC, or pitch interactive television concepts to the BBC, than just read textbooks for four years.
1. David Letterman and other esteemed alumni are doing pretty well for themselves.