A new 5-year B.A./M.A. in Professional and Business Communication offers La Salle students an opportunity to earn an integrated undergraduate and graduate degree in communication and to save some money on graduate tuition in the process.

Undergraduate communication majors and minors are invited to apply for the program at any time during their undergraduate program. With the first class offerings slated to begin in the July 2015 summer semester, the program has already enrolled a number of students and is currently accepting more applications.

“There has been a lot of interest—the students are really excited about it,” said Pamela J. Lannutti, Ph.D., associate professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Professional and Business Communication. “I think it just intuitively makes sense to them to have this integrated option, and they see it as a real value-added that you can leave La Salle with a B.A. and an M.A. in just five years.”