Communication & Media Studies at DePauw University

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

DePauw is located in Greencastle, Indiana and has a total student population of 1,752. Of the 583 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in 2021, 66 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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.

DePauw Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

DePauw Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how DePauw performed in these rankings.

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 communications major at DePauw 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 Schools	5
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	23
Best Communication & Media Studies Schools	27
	148
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	269
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	372
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	409

Earnings of DePauw Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at DePauw is $36,479. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 12% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at DePauw

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

DePauw Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 66 students earned a bachelor's degree in communications from DePauw. About 53% of these graduates were women and the other 47% were men. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at DePauw since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at DePauw are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	48
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

DePauw 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 IN, the home state for DePauw University.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Public Relations Specialists	3,850	$53,870
Editors	1,110	$51,800
Reporters and Correspondents	820	$46,830
Radio and Television Announcers	510	$43,160

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 Rovergirl88 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.