Communication & Media Studies at California State University - Bakersfield

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Bakersfield. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUB is located in Bakersfield, California and approximately 11,745 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 109 communications majors received their bachelor's degree from CSUB.

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.

CSUB Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

CSUB Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at CSUB compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 CSUB 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	228

Earnings of CSUB Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUB is $32,507. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 0% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at CSUB

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

CSUB Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 109 communications students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from CSUB, about 43% were men and 57% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUB since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 University - Bakersfield with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	53
White	25
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

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

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 University - Bakersfield.

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.