Communication & Media Studies at Michigan State University

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

Michigan State is located in East Lansing, Michigan and has a total student population of 49,695. Of the 9,450 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in 2021, 506 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.

Michigan State Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Michigan State

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Michigan State offers distance education options for communications at the following degree levels:

Michigan State Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Michigan State 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 Michigan State 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 Online Communication & Media Studies Graduate Certificate Schools	3
	123
	134

In 2021, 8 students received their master’s degree in communications from Michigan State. This makes it the #130 most popular school for communications master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 19 students who received their doctoral degrees in communications, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of Michigan State Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Michigan State is $37,107. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 14% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Michigan State

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

Michigan State Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 506 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from Michigan State in 2020-2021, 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Michigan State since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Michigan State are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	48
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	282
International Students	108
Other Races/Ethnicities	28

Michigan State Communication & Media Studies Master’s Program

The communications program at Michigan State awarded 8 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 25% of these degrees went to men with the other 75% going to women.

Of the students who received a communications master's degree from Michigan State, 75% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Michigan State University with a master's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Michigan State also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 19 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication
• Journalism
• Public Relations & Advertising

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 MI, the home state for Michigan State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Public Relations Specialists	6,280	$61,760
Editors	1,670	$58,150
Reporters and Correspondents	1,190	$47,110
Writers and Authors	1,120	$60,850
Communications Professors	900	$71,770

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 Jeffness under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.