Speech Communication at East Carolina University

If you plan to study speech communication, take a look at what East Carolina University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and has a total student population of 28,798.

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

ECU Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication
• Master’s Degree in Speech Communication

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? ECU offers distance education options for speech communication at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

ECU Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Speech Communication. 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.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the speech communication majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at ECU 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 East Carolina University with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	45
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	160
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

ECU Speech Communication Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 27% of speech communication master's degrees went to men and 73% went to women.

Of the students who received a speech communication master's degree from ECU, 64% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a master's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	14
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

Careers That Speech Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in speech communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Public Relations Specialists	4,750	$64,450
Communications Professors	1,000	$65,770
Writers and Authors	950	$67,250
Radio and Television Announcers	820	$50,600
Public Address System Announcers	160	$33,620

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.