Dual Degree Programs
The School of Communication offers two dual degree programs for undergraduates.
Communication and Engineering
The dual degree program in communication and engineering offers students the opportunity to earn bachelor’s degrees in both communication and engineering in five years. Students may select any of the School of Communication’s six majors. The school maintains an enrollment cap of 100 per class for the theatre major; if this major is full, students may request to be put on a waiting list. They may also select any of the available programs of study in engineering.
Program Requirements
All students in the dual degree program must complete all requirements for both degrees. All policies of each school are enforced in the meeting of that school’s requirements.
No major in engineering or communication will be awarded without the relevant degree requirements also having been fulfilled; the majors in engineering and communication can only be earned as part of the respective degrees. Students are also required to meet the Undergraduate Registration Requirement (URR) for students in dual degree programs, earning at least 42 credits in 12 quarters at Northwestern.
For more information, visit the NU Academic Catalog .
For Prospective Students
Music and Communication
The dual degree program in music and communication offers students the opportunity to earn either a bachelor of music or bachelor of arts in music and either a bachelor of science or bachelor of arts in communication in five years. Acceptance into the Bienen School of Music via audition is required for participation in the dual degree program.
Pending an approved audition, students in the dual degree program may select any of the Bienen School of Music’s majors. Students may also select any of the School of Communication’s six majors for the BS in communication and any School of Communication major other than human communication sciences for the BA in communication, although the school maintains an enrollment cap of 100 per class for both the theatre and the radio/television/film major; if one of these majors is full, students may request to be put on a waiting list.
Program Requirements
All students in the dual degree program must complete all requirements for both degrees, with no double counting of courses allowed between the required courses for the communication major and the required courses for the music major. All policies of each school are enforced in the meeting of that school’s requirements.
No major in communication will be awarded without the School of Communication degree requirements also having been fulfilled; communication majors can only be earned as part of the communication degree. Students are also required to meet the Undergraduate Registration Requirement (URR) for students in dual degree programs, earning at least 42 credits in 12 quarters at Northwestern.
For more information, visit the NU Academic Catalog.
For Prospective Students
- For policies and advising, visit SoC Undergraduate Advising.
- Current students who are interested in pursuing the dual degree should contact the assistant dean for student affairs in the Bienen School and the director of advising and student affairs in the School of Communication.
