Communication & Media Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University

Every communication and 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 Eastern Connecticut State University stacks up to those at other schools.

ECSU is located in Willimantic, Connecticut and approximately 4,644 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 61 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from ECSU.

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.

ECSU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

ECSU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at ECSU 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	97
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	291
	420

Earnings of ECSU Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at ECSU is $30,552. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at ECSU

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

ECSU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at ECSU awarded 61 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 38% of these degrees went to men with the other 62% going to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at ECSU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at ECSU 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 Eastern Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	36
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 CT, the home state for Eastern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Public Relations Specialists	1,780	$73,600
Editors	950	$71,260
Writers and Authors	560	$78,440
Radio and Television Announcers	390	$42,320
Communications Professors	270	$83,720

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 John Phelan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.