Audiovisual Communications at Ferris State University

If you are interested in studying audiovisual communications, you may want to check out the program at Ferris State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Ferris is located in Big Rapids, Michigan and has a total student population of 11,165. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students received a bachelor's degree in audiovisual from Ferris.

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

Ferris Audiovisual Communications Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual

Ferris Audiovisual Communications Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the audiovisual progam at Ferris compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 audiovisual major at Ferris is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Audiovisual Communications. 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
Best Audiovisual Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools	11

Earnings of Ferris Audiovisual Graduates

The median salary of audiovisual students who receive their bachelor's degree at Ferris is $26,852. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 5% higher than the national average of $25,695 for all audiovisual bachelor's degree recipients.

Audiovisual Student Demographics at Ferris

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the audiovisual majors at Ferris State University.

Ferris Audiovisual Communications Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students earned a bachelor's degree in audiovisual from Ferris. About 33% of these graduates were women and the other 67% were men. The typical audiovisual bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at Ferris since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in audiovisual at Ferris 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 Ferris State University with a bachelor's in audiovisual.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Graphic Communications

Careers That Audiovisual Grads May Go Into

A degree in audiovisual can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Ferris State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians	1,520	$40,470
Broadcast Technicians	730	$45,300
Film and Video Editors	510	$64,620
Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators	200	$58,090
Sound Engineering Technicians	90	$65,540

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.