Communication & Media Studies at Lake Forest College

Every communication and media studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the communications program at Lake Forest College stacks up to those at other schools.

Lake Forest is located in Lake Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 1,583. Of the 449 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College in 2021, 17 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.

Lake Forest Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Lake Forest Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Lake Forest performed in these rankings.

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 communications major at Lake Forest 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
	16
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	39
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	220
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	365
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	539
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	675

Earnings of Lake Forest Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Lake Forest is $45,662. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 41% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Lake Forest

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

Lake Forest Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from Lake Forest. Of these graduates, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Lake Forest since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Lake Forest 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 Lake Forest College with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Lake Forest 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 IL, the home state for Lake Forest College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Editors	3,830	$62,590
Writers and Authors	1,880	$68,710
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Reporters and Correspondents	1,260	$53,610

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 Eudaimonia86 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.