The University of Utah, based in Salt Lake City, UT offers a fully funded master’s in Communication. The graduate program currently offers graduate study in four of the Department’s five areas of emphasis: Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk (CommSHER); Critical/Cultural Studies; Digital Media; and Rhetoric. The Department strives to fully fund all admitted graduate students who request funding when they apply to the graduate program. Funding is offered in the form of teaching or research assistantships: full funding includes a full tuition waiver as well as an annual stipend and is offered for two years for masters.