Communication & Media Studies at McNeese State University

If you plan to study communication and media studies, take a look at what McNeese State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

McNeese is located in Lake Charles, Louisiana and approximately 7,284 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,104 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from McNeese State University in 2021, 30 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.

McNeese Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

McNeese Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at McNeese compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 McNeese 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 Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	377
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	464

Earnings of McNeese Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at McNeese is $26,036. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at McNeese

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

McNeese Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 30 communications students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from McNeese, about 27% were men and 73% were women.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at McNeese 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 McNeese State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

McNeese 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 LA, the home state for McNeese State University.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Public Relations Specialists	1,350	$53,390
Reporters and Correspondents	460	$57,990
Editors	450	$42,340
Radio and Television Announcers	320	$30,040
Writers and Authors	260	$44,710

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 Gkarg under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.