The Department's degree programmes present highly innovative content, aimed at creating new professional skills. Qualifying and innovative teaching activities are delivered by experts and professionals as part of the educational offer, also numerous internships. They develop and apply new research – applied and experimental – and teaching methodologies. For instance, the ONELab platform, an online repository of the video-recordings of lectures delivered in presence. The Department's offer consistently attracts students from other regions, also leading to excellent employment rates to date. 

The Department brings together researchers from many humanistic and social disciplinary areas, who, since its establishment that have enthusiastically embraced the challenge of an interdisciplinary scientific approach to the study of communicative, social and economic phenomena. This ambitious strategic objective has certainly found a more fertile field in certain study contexts, which can no longer be covered by scientific competences only within the individual disciplines, but the commitment to the integration of knowledge has always conspicuously characterised the Department's activities. 

The widespread international scientific research and applied research in the laboratories also constitute a means for interacting with and entering into important collaborations with institutions, organisations and companies. Third mission activities reach out to the territory, through popularisation and participation in applied research activities.

Since October 2005, the headquarter of the Department of Communication and Economics has been the former ‘Caserma Zucchi’, named on 9 February 2013 after Giuseppe Dossetti, a jurist and father of the Constitution. 
Caserma Zucchi offers equipped classrooms, two computer labs with 80 PC workstations each, the Interdepartmental University Library, and study spaces. 
It is home to research assistants from the Department, PhD students from the School of Data Science for Social and Technological Innovation, external collaborators for teaching and research activities and Visiting Professors.
The prestigious Aula Magna ‘Pietro Manodori’ is the venue for important academic and cultural events in the city.

The Department hosts numerous meetings of both a popular and seminar nature on the main themes that characterize the contemporary scientific debate, with the participation of external speakers from the economic, social and political worlds. 

Systematic interaction with the stakeholders is also evidenced by the presentation of volumes and essays by authoritative writers and by the organization of events that have seen the participation over time of recognized journalists and persons from the world of entertainment. 

Lastly, the Aula Magna ‘Pietro Manodori’ has now consolidated its function as a a ‘crossroads’, and a place for cultural debates in the city, in which the Department's researchers participate as organizers or as guests at events promoted by local bodies, institutions and organizations.