Journalism at Brooklyn College

If you plan to study journalism, take a look at what Brooklyn College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Brooklyn College is located in Brooklyn, New York and has a total student population of 17,735. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Brooklyn College.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Journalism section at the bottom of this page.

Brooklyn College Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

Brooklyn College Journalism Rankings

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

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 journalism major at Brooklyn College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Journalism. 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 Value Journalism Schools	87

Earnings of Brooklyn College Journalism Graduates

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College is $31,077. This is less than $31,781, which is the national average of all journalism majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Journalism Student Demographics at Brooklyn College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Brooklyn College.

Brooklyn College Journalism Bachelor’s Program

Of the 32 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Brooklyn College in 2020-2021, 31% were men and 69% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 45% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in journalism can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Brooklyn College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Editors	19,140	$83,070
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380
Film and Video Editors	4,590	$92,170
Reporters and Correspondents	4,540	$81,930
Photographers	4,090	$53,150

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 Gabriel Liendo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.