Communication & Media Studies at Ithaca College

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

Ithaca is located in Ithaca, New York and has a total student population of 5,354. Of the 1,366 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 2021, 8 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.

Ithaca Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Ithaca Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at Ithaca 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 Ithaca 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
	132
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	157
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	912
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	914

Communications Student Demographics at Ithaca

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

Ithaca Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from Ithaca. Of these graduates, 38% were men and 63% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Ithaca since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Ithaca College with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Radio, Television & Digital Communication
• Public Relations & Advertising

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 NY, the home state for Ithaca College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists	24,510	$74,000
Editors	19,140	$83,070
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380
Reporters and Correspondents	4,540	$81,930
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470

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 Mr Senseless under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.