Communication & Media Studies at Holy Names University

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at Holy Names University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

HNU is located in Oakland, California and approximately 1,014 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from HNU.

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.

HNU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

HNU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at HNU 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 Schools	130
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	594
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	746

Communications Student Demographics at HNU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Holy Names University.

HNU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from HNU. Of these graduates, 86% were men and 14% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at HNU since its program graduates 50% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 47% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communications bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

HNU 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 CA, the home state for Holy Names University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Radio and Television Announcers	2,780	$78,840

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 HolyNamesWebmaster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.