Communication & Media Studies at Chestnut Hill College

Every communication & media studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the communications program at Chestnut Hill College stacks up to those at other schools.

CHC is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,528.

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.

CHC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

CHC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at CHC 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 CHC

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

CHC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 86% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 14% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at CHC since its program graduates 49% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 Chestnut Hill College with a bachelor's in communications.

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

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 Chestnut Hill College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communications	15

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism (Other)

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 PA, the home state for Chestnut Hill College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Public Relations Specialists	8,390	$61,510
Editors	3,020	$62,870
Writers and Authors	1,400	$60,140
Reporters and Correspondents	1,330	$39,600
Communications Professors	1,280	$76,720

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 Kiran under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.