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What Will Your Story Be?

College is not just about getting a degree. It’s about planning your life story. At the SOJC, you’ll find a welcoming vibe and supportive community that’s rare in large public universities. You’ll access flexible programs that allow you to truly explore your passions while building skills in our state-of-the-art production spaces, student-run publications and agencies, internships, and global learning trips. And you’ll discover how to make a real difference with your unique contributions.

What Will Your Story Be?

College is not just about getting a degree. It’s about planning your life story. At the SOJC, you’ll find a welcoming vibe and supportive community that’s rare in large public universities. You’ll access flexible programs that allow you to truly explore your passions while building skills in our state-of-the-art production spaces, student-run publications and agencies, internships, and global learning trips. And you’ll discover how to make a real difference with your unique contributions.

Undergraduate Degrees

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Graduate Degrees

In a competitive and rapidly evolving field, an advanced degree will help you stand out. No matter which path you take, you’ll get to work alongside some of the best faculty practitioners and researchers in the field. We offer:

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Undergraduate Degrees

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Graduate Degrees

In a competitive and rapidly evolving field, an advanced degree will help you stand out. No matter which path you take, you’ll get to work alongside some of the best faculty practitioners and researchers in the field. We offer:

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Latest News

The advisors at the SOJC Undergraduate Student Success Center help students make the connection between short-term decisions, like choosing classes, and long-term goals, like finding the right career.
Lookout Santa Cruz, a digital-only news site started by Ken Doctor '79, won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of flooding in California. Doctor is a member of the SOJC Hall of Achievement.
Advertising major Annie Neal '25 and journalism major Johnny Media '24 are honored for exploring passions an embracing challenges as they thrive in their UO experience.

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Latest News

The advisors at the SOJC Undergraduate Student Success Center help students make the connection between short-term decisions, like choosing classes, and long-term goals, like finding the right career.

More News  »

$700K+
in student scholarships awarded each year
16
Pulitzer prizes won by faculty and alumni
21,000+
in the SOJC Alumni Network

Hands-On Learning, Real-World Experience

A student reporter interviews a person fly fishing while they both stand in a river

The hallmark of the SOJC experience is the professional practice students get in the field. From reporting trips around the globe, to internships with multinational media companies, to navigating the complexities of client work in student-run agencies, these real-life experiences will tip the scales in your favor when it's time to find a job.

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a student adjusts a video camera in the Allen Hall studio

In Allen Hall on the Eugene campus, the Experience Hub has everything you need to become a powerful content creator, including our cutting-edge immersive media lab, professional-quality podcast studio, social media analytics lab, a broadcast/photography studio and editing bays, and plenty of flexible spaces for creative collaboration.

Learn about the Experience Hub

Danny Pimentel instructs a student wearing a VR headset

The next media frontier is the immersive metasphere, from 360 video to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR). We’re pioneering media-making and research, and exploring the ethics of these emerging technologies at the Oregon Reality (OR) Lab, our state-of-the-art immersive experience space at SOJC Portland.

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Events

New Media and Culture Certificate Annual Lecture
May16
New Media and Culture Certificate Annual Lecture May 16 Knight Library
International GE Time Together
May20
International GE Time Together May 20 Susan Campbell Hall
Cinema Studies Presents: Meet and Mingle with Marmoset Music's Bob Werner
May21
Cinema Studies Presents: Meet and Mingle with Marmoset Music's Bob Werner May 21 Knight Library
Cinema Studies Presents: Screening of "Race to Survive: New Zealand” and Q&A with Emmy Award-winning Television Series Producer Jeff Conroy
May23
Cinema Studies Presents: Screening of "Race to Survive: New Zealand” and Q&A with Emmy Award-winning Television Series Producer Jeff Conroy May 23 Lawrence Hall
National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship Info Session
May24
National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship Info Session May 24
Screening of "Break the Game" including Q&A with Jane Wagner
May30
Screening of "Break the Game" including Q&A with Jane Wagner May 30 Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
SCYP Salem End of Year Celebration
Jun4
SCYP Salem End of Year Celebration Jun 4 Center 50+
Moving from Resistance to Writing
Jun13
Moving from Resistance to Writing Jun 13
Cinema Studies Presents: The Art of Producing Spring Term Showcase
Jun13
Cinema Studies Presents: The Art of Producing Spring Term Showcase Jun 13 Lawrence Hall
School of Journalism and Communication Commencement Ceremony
Jun17
School of Journalism and Communication Commencement Ceremony Jun 17 Matthew Knight Arena

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