Communication & Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 11,254.

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.

MIT Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications
• Master’s Degree in Communications

MIT Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at MIT 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.

Communications Student Demographics at MIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at MIT since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in communications.

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

MIT Communication & Media Studies Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of communications master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's in communications.

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

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

Communication & Media Studies majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communication & Media Studies	11

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 MA, the home state for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Public Relations Specialists	7,040	$68,610
Editors	3,160	$89,280
Writers and Authors	1,490	$70,000
Reporters and Correspondents	1,050	$53,140
Communications Professors	530	$79,930

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 InSapphoWeTrust under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.