Overview

Create content across different media platforms, practice your professional skills, and critically analyze the role of news and sports in our culture and society.The B.A. in News and Sports Communication from Robert Morris University prepares you for an exciting career in news or sports media. Courses blend current media practices in writing, reporting, and media technologies. You study the leadership skills needed to work and lead in diverse newsrooms and other media environments in local and global contexts and graduate with a professional portfolio that showcases examples of your professionally focused work.

Key Features

Multidisciplinary Focus: Complement your news and sports expertise with elective courses in other disciplines, including organizational leadership, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Students complete either a minor or a double major in addition to the B.A. in News and Sports Communication.Hands-on Experience: You are the anchor, the reporter, the producer, the editor ,as well as the performer of many other media roles supplementing your classroom work. You make the same content and production decisions professionals make every single day through various hands-on opportunities at the Academic Media Center, RMU Sentry Media, RMU Radio, RMU-TV and the Colonial Sports Network. To further enhance your professional experiences, we strongly encourage you to complete at least one off-campus internship as part of your coursework.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Media Writing and Reporting

Broadcast and Online Reporting

Media Writing and Reporting

Sports Reporting

General Psychology
Investigative Reporting; Sports Reporting

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-01 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

Communication Studies Sport and Exercise Science View 1082 other Bachelors in Sport and Exercise Science in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.7

English requirements

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General requirements

Complete RMU’s free online application at rmu.edu/apply

Official transcripts from all secondary and post-secondary schools attended

Official third-party evaluation of all transcripts that were not issued from a school in the United States.

For Transfer Students: college transcripts should include a course by course evaluation to ensure credits are transferred and applied correctly. If the student has earned 30+ credits at a college in the United States, secondary school transcripts may not be required.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

35700 USD / year

≈ 35700 USD / year
Out-of-State

35700 USD / year

≈ 35700 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

35700 USD / year

≈ 35700 USD / year

Living costs

New York City

United States

1819 - 3968 USD / month

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