This specialization prepares students to promote clients in the business world within agency or corporate settings. Job roles include advertising account executive, advertising media manager, public relations director, media director for a political campaign, and marketing consultant.

This specialization prepares students for careers in radio, television, broadcast news, audio/video production, graphic design, and interactive media/Web development. Job roles include broadcast station manager, technical director, videographer, radio announcer, video producer, graphic designer, animator, and Web developer. 

This specialization prepares the student for the news professions in a variety of media channels, including newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, and the Internet. Job roles include news writer, columnist, editorialist, reporter, copy editor, section editor, managing editor, editor-in-chief, broadcast reporter, television news anchor, news director, and webmaster and blogger.

Business Journalism is an interdisciplinary minor offered by the Communication and Media and Economics Departments. Business journalists report on financial markets, the economy, the corporate world and how these issues impact society at large. 

The communication and media minor consists of seven courses. A CM minor must choose a specific specialization from Advertising/PR, Journalism, or Digital Media.

Loyola’s online Master of Arts in Emerging Media is a graduate-level communications degree that prepares students to take on the evolving digital landscape of tomorrow. Designed for working professionals, the program features asynchronous classes and course work allowing students with busy or irregular schedules to maintain their course load