Communication & Media Studies at East Mississippi Community College

If you plan to study communication and media studies, take a look at what East Mississippi Community College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

EMCC is located in Scooba, Mississippi and approximately 3,392 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.

EMCC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at EMCC

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? EMCC offers distance education options for communications at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

EMCC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Communications Student Demographics at EMCC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at East Mississippi Community College.

EMCC Communication & Media Studies Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of communications associate's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in communications only graduates about 36% men each year. The program at EMCC may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 24% more women than average.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in communications at EMCC are white. Around 60% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree. EMCC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in communications graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Mississippi Community College with a associate's in communications.

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

Related Majors

• Journalism

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 MS, the home state for East Mississippi Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Public Relations Specialists	1,430	$52,840
Reporters and Correspondents	300	$34,530
Editors	280	$46,070
Writers and Authors	170	$53,810

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.