Master’s graduates from the school have landed jobs at:

• Google Business Solutions
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina
• Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, UNC
• The Charlotte Observer
• Child Advocacy Institute
• Six Flags Theme Parks
• Euro RSCG Life Public Relations
• NewYorkTimes.com
• News 14 Carolina
• News of Orange County
• Nortel Networks
• The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif.
• Bloomberg News, Seoul Bureau
• The St. Petersburg Times
• U.S. Army, Pentagon Public Affairs Office
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Voice of America
• WRAL-TV in Raleigh
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Most of Ph.D. alumni are professors at universities across the country. Recent graduates were hired by:

• American University
• The American University in Cairo
• Elon University
• N.C. Central University
• Emerson College
• Meredith College
• Middle Tennessee State University
• University of Denver
• West Virginia University
• Virginia Tech University
• University of Utah
• Texas Tech University
• Texas Christian University
• Louisiana State University

Other Ph.D. graduates hold top management positions in research, advertising and marketing firms. Some hold public-sector positions, and several have started their own companies. Among the non-academic positions Ph.D. graduates have taken are:

• Assistant vice president for ecommerce, Sun Trust, Atlanta
• Management and program analyst, FBI
• Director of research, TRAC Media Services
• Owner and director, Medical Marketing Management
• Vice president for marketing, Shearson Lehman Brothers
• Director of polling, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Managing partner, Yankelovich Partners, Inc.
• Director of research, Miller/Huber Relationship Agency
• Editor, Government Video magazine
• Director of development, N.C. Museum of Life and Sciences