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  • The Slane College has maintained instructional partnerships with entertainment-industry leaders including Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Stu- dios, CBS, Fox Sports, HBO, Walt Disney Imagineering, DreamWorks Animation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ABC, NBC, Warner Music Group, Warner Records, Interscope Records, Young and Rubicam, and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, among others. and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, among others.
  • Slane College students can spend a semester of their junior or senior year studying abroad at an array of top-tier foreign universities. They can also spend a semester in Los Angeles in Bradley’s Hollywood Semester (a partnership program with the University of Texas), where they take classes in our shared facility across from Warner Bros. Studios and have full-time entertainment-industry internships.
  • Bradley was selected as one of only five universities to compete for student internships with NBC universal for the 2012 olympics in London — one of the many amazing internships secured by our students with the world’s leading companies in communications and fine arts.
  • The Bradley International Print and drawing exhibition is the second-longest running juried print and drawing competition in the country.
  • The iBradley media Festival draws entries from across the country and around the world to compete in categories including feature film, animation, application design, game design, and Web design.
  • On top of all this, The Slane College has (a lot of) great (high tech) gear.

Bradley’s Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts seamlessly integrates the fields of communication, fine arts, interactive media, and entertainment technology. Inspired by Albert Einstein’s words “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” the innovative work of our faculty and students centers on imagination, creativity, and communication.

The Slane College offers outstanding regional, national, and international programs in art, communication, interactive media, music, and theatre arts. Innovation permeates the Slane College and plays out in its reputation as a world leader in using advanced technology. Alongside an impressive array of traditional mass com, fine arts, and performing arts programs, new majors and areas of study that are exciting and attractive to the marketplace are Game Design, Animation and Visual Effects, Web and Application Design, and Music Business.

A special niche for Bradley is its major league Sports Communication program — recognized as one of the best in the country. Covering the wide world of sports, the program includes sports journalism, broadcasting, marketing, and play-by-play announcing. Our alumni excel in this field and have been the broadcast voices for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Clippers, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Bengals, Dallas Mavericks, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Bradley’s Slane College graduates go far in their fields and careers — literally. During interims and breaks, faculty lead students on the Slane College’s signature Expedition Courses: Milan for sports (soccer) communication; Tuscany for photography and sculpture; London for graphic design, theatre arts, and sports communication (2012 Summer Olympics); Dublin for communication, Paris for art appreciation; Beijing, Hong Kong, and Madrid for advertising; Johannesburg for sports communication (2010 World Cup); and Vienna for music appreciation. The Bradley Chorale regularly performs throughout Europe, and the Jazz Ensemble performs throughout Italy, Switzerland, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in France.

Slane College students also go to New York for broadcasting and theatre arts and meet the entertainment-industry executives and artists of the major studios and production houses in Hollywood to study film, television, and game production; public relations, marketing, and programming; music business; and sports communication.

Bradley’s Speech Team is the most successful competitive forensics program in the country, winning more than 39 national team championships and 115 individual national championships — a record of success unmatched by any other forensic or academic program in history.

A remarkable 43 Emmy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize have been awarded to Slane College students, professors and alumni.

No matter what Slane College graduates go on to do, they take the lead as innovators, drivers, and organizers of change.