Ball State University

Ball State University is a public university in Muncie, Indiana, opened in 1918 as a state normal school on land given by the Ball brothers, glass manufacturers. It became Ball State Teachers College and gained university status in 1965. It is a regional public university with a residential campus of more than 700 acres in east-central Indiana.

Academic divisions include the College of Architecture and Planning; the College of Communication, Information, and Media, including journalism and telecommunications programs named for David Letterman; and colleges of education, business, fine arts, and sciences. Graduate students use design studios, media facilities, and education and health clinics.

About 20,000 students enroll, mostly undergraduates, with several thousand graduate students and a modest international share. Faculty number about 1,000. Alumni include television host David Letterman, cartoonist Jim Davis, and actress Joyce DeWitt.

Graduate study includes master's degrees, specialist credentials, and doctorates in fields such as education. Coursework plus a thesis or project is typical for master's work; doctoral study is supervised in departments. The calendar is semesters. Assistantships are the main funding for full-time graduate students. Muncie is a small city, and graduate life is campus-centered rather than metropolitan.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Ball State University lists 1 master's program, in communication, media & journalism.