Journalism at Hampshire College

If you plan to study journalism, take a look at what Hampshire College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Hampshire is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 522 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 2 journalism majors received their bachelor's degree from Hampshire.

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

Hampshire Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

Hampshire Journalism Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The journalism major at Hampshire 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Journalism Schools	131
Most Popular Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	286
Most Popular Journalism Schools	371

Journalism Student Demographics at Hampshire

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Hampshire College.

Hampshire Journalism Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Hampshire. About 100% of these graduates were women and the other 0% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Hampshire College with a bachelor's in journalism.

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

Hampshire 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 MA, the home state for Hampshire College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Editors	3,160	$89,280
Writers and Authors	1,490	$70,000
Photographers	1,220	$65,090
Reporters and Correspondents	1,050	$53,140
Communications Professors	530	$79,930

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 Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.