Communication & Media Studies at Belmont University

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

Belmont is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 8,204 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,711 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Belmont University in 2021, 49 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.

Belmont Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Belmont Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Belmont 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
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	119
	238
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	361

Earnings of Belmont Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Belmont is $34,080. This is 5% higher than $32,435, which is the national average for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Belmont

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

Belmont Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at Belmont awarded 49 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 14% of these degrees went to men with the other 86% going to women.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Belmont 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 Belmont University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	41
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

• Publishing
• Journalism
• Public Relations & Advertising

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 TN, the home state for Belmont University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Public Relations Specialists	1,980	$64,170
Editors	1,690	$54,400
Writers and Authors	750	$55,370
Radio and Television Announcers	600	$43,560
Reporters and Correspondents	530	$37,290

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 EVula under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.