The School of Communication Universiti Sains Malaysia is the ‘pioneer of communication studies in Malaysia since 1971’. The School was established in 1993, but communication studies was offered initially under the School of Humanities in 1971. This make USM the first university that offered communication studies in Malaysia.

Over the past 50 years, we have much to be proud of. Our ranking is one of them. We were ranked top three in media and communication studies in Malaysia, and top 200 globally by QS World University ranking. In addition, Our Master in Communication program is one of the best in Asia where we were ranked top 11 by Ed universal ranking Best Masters.

The School of Communication has continually developed and provided media and communication education that reflected the needs of the industry. Digitization is key to this development. We have revised our Bachelor of Communication programmed to introduce digital communication as a new area of specialization.