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Communication & Media Studies at Arkansas Tech University

Communication & Media Studies at Arkansas Tech University

If you plan to study communication & media studies, take a look at what Arkansas Tech University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ATU is located in Russellville, Arkansas and has a total student population of 10,829.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Communication & Media Studies section at the bottom of this page.

ATU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Basic Certificate in Communications (Less Than 1 Year)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

ATU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at ATU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication & Media Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Communications Student Demographics at ATU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Arkansas Tech University.

ATU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

58% Women
8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 42% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at ATU since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

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About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at ATU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Arkansas Tech University with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

If you plan to be a communications major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Arkansas Tech University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication 21

Careers That Communications Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AR, the home state for Arkansas Tech University.

Occupation Jobs in AR Average Salary in AR
Public Relations Specialists 1,110 $60,470
Editors 330 $47,480
Radio and Television Announcers 330 $33,140
Reporters and Correspondents 260 $32,620
Communications Professors 250 $65,060

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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