Communication & Media Studies at Augustana College

What traits are you looking for in a communications school? To help you decide if Augustana College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications program.

Augustana is located in Rock Island, Illinois and has a total student population of 2,389. Of the 914 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in 2021, 43 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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.

Augustana Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Augustana Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Augustana performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Augustana 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	134
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	152
	339

Earnings of Augustana Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Augustana is $32,691. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Augustana

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Augustana College.

Augustana Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 43 communications students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Augustana, about 35% were men and 65% were women.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Augustana 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 Augustana College with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	28
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Augustana also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Journalism

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 IL, the home state for Augustana College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Editors	3,830	$62,590
Writers and Authors	1,880	$68,710
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Reporters and Correspondents	1,260	$53,610

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Smallbones under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.