Communications at Marist College

18% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

Marist is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and approximately 6,600 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Communications section at the bottom of this page.

Marist Communications Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts

Marist Communications Rankings

The communication arts major at Marist is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communications. 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.

Communication Arts Student Demographics at Marist

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communication arts majors at Marist College.

Marist Communications Bachelor’s Program

58% Women

18% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 42% of communication arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% went to women. The typical communication arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at Marist since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication arts at Marist 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 Marist College with a bachelor's in communication arts.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	134
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Communication Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication arts 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 Marist 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
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