Communication & Journalism at McDaniel College

If you are interested in studying communication & journalism, you may want to check out the program at McDaniel College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

McDaniel is located in Westminster, Maryland and approximately 2,931 students attend the school each year.

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

McDaniel Communication & Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communication & Journalism

McDaniel Communication & Journalism Rankings

The communication & journalism major at McDaniel is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication & Journalism. 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 & Journalism Student Demographics at McDaniel

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communication & journalism majors at McDaniel College.

McDaniel Communication & Journalism Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of communication & journalism bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical communication & journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at McDaniel since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication & journalism at McDaniel 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 McDaniel College with a bachelor's in communication & journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Communication & Journalism

If you plan to be a communication & journalism major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from McDaniel College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communication & Media Studies	19
Publishing	1

Related Majors

• Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• History
• Foreign Languages & Linguistics
• Philosophy & Religious Studies

Careers That Communication & Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication & journalism can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for McDaniel College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Public Relations Specialists	3,250	$71,030
Editors	2,280	$59,560
Technical Writers	2,000	$80,130
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	1,720	$123,020

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 Swissbeauty under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.