Communication & Media Studies at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

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

Cal Poly Pomona is located in Pomona, California and approximately 30,014 students attend the school each year.

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.

Cal Poly Pomona Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Cal Poly Pomona Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Cal Poly Pomona 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 Cal Poly Pomona

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.

Cal Poly Pomona Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 36% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communications bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	33
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	94
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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 California State Polytechnic University - Pomona. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication	199

Related Majors

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 CA, the home state for California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Radio and Television Announcers	2,780	$78,840

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 Victorrocha under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.