Communication & Media Studies at Hope College

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

Hope is located in Holland, Michigan and has a total student population of 3,061. Of the 831 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hope College in 2021, 38 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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.

Hope Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Hope Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at Hope 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 Hope 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
	304
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	337

Earnings of Hope Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Hope is $33,013. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 2% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Hope

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

Hope Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 38 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from Hope. Of these graduates, 34% were men and 66% were women.

About 95% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Hope 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 Hope College with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	36
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

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 MI, the home state for Hope College.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Public Relations Specialists	6,280	$61,760
Editors	1,670	$58,150
Reporters and Correspondents	1,190	$47,110
Writers and Authors	1,120	$60,850
Communications Professors	900	$71,770

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 Trenner1945 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.