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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

From Allen Hall PR to PRNEWS Rising Star, Hannah Oakley ’18 has built a career shaping narratives for athletes, entertainers, and women’s sports leagues.
Faculty share advice on making connections with professors to find internships, build portfolios, and prepare for careers in media and communication.
SOJC Professor of Practice Torsten Kjellstrand will be inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame, which honors outstanding contributors to visual communication with ties to Missouri.

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Latest News

From Allen Hall PR to PRNEWS Rising Star, Hannah Oakley ’18 has built a career shaping narratives for athletes, entertainers, and women’s sports leagues.

More News  »

$725K+
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

Strategic Communication Master's Information Session
Oct16
Strategic Communication Master's Information Session Oct 16
Multimedia Storytelling Master's Information Session
Oct17
Multimedia Storytelling Master's Information Session Oct 17
2025 Oregon Postdoc Symposium
Oct17
2025 Oregon Postdoc Symposium Oct 17
The BIG10 Academia Postdoc Hiring Fair
Oct21
The BIG10 Academia Postdoc Hiring Fair Oct 21
The BIG10 Academia Faculty Hiring Fair
Oct22
The BIG10 Academia Faculty Hiring Fair Oct 22
The BIG10 Grad Student and Postdoc Industry Recruitment Event
Oct23
The BIG10 Grad Student and Postdoc Industry Recruitment Event Oct 23
Fall Career & Internship Expo
Oct23
Fall Career & Internship Expo Oct 23 Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Graduate School Fair 2025
Nov13
Graduate School Fair 2025 Nov 13 Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
The Academic Adjacent Job Search
Nov19
The Academic Adjacent Job Search Nov 19
What is Research? (2026)
Apr23
What is Research? (2026) Apr 23 UO Portland

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