Journalism at Georgia State University

Every journalism school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the journalism program at Georgia State University stacks up to those at other schools.

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 36,360 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,480 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University in 2021, 179 of them were journalism majors.

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

Georgia State Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

Georgia State Journalism Rankings

The journalism major at Georgia State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Journalism. 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.

Earnings of Georgia State Journalism Graduates

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at Georgia State is $28,521. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $31,781 for all journalism students.

Journalism Student Demographics at Georgia State

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

Georgia State Journalism Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 179 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Georgia State. About 25% were men and 75% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 38% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	98
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	43
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Editors	2,190	$61,330
Photographers	1,850	$45,270
Film and Video Editors	1,330	$64,470
Reporters and Correspondents	1,230	$51,140
Writers and Authors	960	$63,260

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 Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.