Among Ohio schools, Ohio University's INCO doctoral program ranked first in the organizational communication sequence, interpersonal communication and applied communication, and second only to Ohio State University in the rhetoric sequence. INCO's doctoral program was created in 1957 and is Ohio University's second-oldest Ph.D. program. INCO currently enrolls 450 undergraduate majors and 75 graduate students, including about 60 doctoral students, according to Sue DeWine, director of the school. In the past two years, all 23 Ph.D. graduates in the INCO program have landed tenure-track college teaching jobs, according to DeWine. Also, INCO faculty and graduate students presented more papers 39 than any other program at this year's Speech Communication Association convention, the largest in the field.
Top faculty attract top graduate students.
It's important to work with faculty who have active programs of research. Undergraduate students benefit the most because this puts some of the best faculty in the country into undergraduate classrooms. Collaborative research is valued here. That really helps graduate students when they leave here.