Communication & Media Studies at Central Connecticut State University

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

CCSU is located in New Britain, Connecticut and approximately 10,652 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.

CCSU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

CCSU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at CCSU 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 CCSU

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

CCSU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 79% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 21% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at CCSU since its program graduates 42% more men than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at CCSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Central Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

Communication & Media Studies majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Central Connecticut State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communication & Media Studies	30

Related Majors

• 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 CT, the home state for Central Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Public Relations Specialists	1,780	$73,600
Editors	950	$71,260
Writers and Authors	560	$78,440
Radio and Television Announcers	390	$42,320
Communications Professors	270	$83,720

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 Sage Ross under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.