Communication & Media Studies at Longwood University

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

Longwood is located in Farmville, Virginia and has a total student population of 4,841. Of the 777 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Longwood University in 2021, 54 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.

Longwood Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Longwood Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

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 Longwood 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	92
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	103
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	268
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	325

Communications Student Demographics at Longwood

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

Longwood Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 54 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in communications from Longwood in 2021, 48% were men and 52% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Longwood since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Longwood 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 Longwood University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	40
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Longwood 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 VA, the home state for Longwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Public Relations Specialists	6,920	$78,410
Editors	3,450	$72,660
Writers and Authors	1,220	$68,600
Reporters and Correspondents	740	$49,530
Radio and Television Announcers	580	$43,660

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 Webster Geneva under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.