Radio, Television & Digital Communication at Eastern Illinois University

If you plan to study radio, television & digital communication, take a look at what Eastern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Radio, Television & Digital Communication section at the bottom of this page.

EIU Radio, Television & Digital Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Communication

EIU Radio, Television & Digital Communication Rankings

The digital communication major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Radio, Television & Digital 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.

Digital Communication Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the digital communication majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of digital communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical digital communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 44% men. So male students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 22% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its digital communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Radio, Television & Digital Communication

If you plan to be a digital communication major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Eastern Illinois University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Media Arts	11
Other Radio, Television, & Digital Communication	10

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Public Relations & Advertising
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Digital Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in digital 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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Producers and Directors	2,950	$77,960
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Radio and Television Announcers	920	$52,020
Film and Video Editors	300	$64,820
Broadcast News Analysts	260	$76,260

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.