Communication & Media Studies at MSU Texas

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

MSU Texas is located in Wichita Falls, Texas and has a total student population of 5,860. Of the 1,168 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from MSU Texas in 2021, 20 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.

MSU Texas Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

MSU Texas Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at MSU Texas 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
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	80
	512
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	519
	534
Best Communication & Media Studies Schools	542
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	620
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	758

How Much Do Communications Graduates from MSU Texas Make?

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at MSU Texas is $28,417. 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 MSU Texas

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at MSU Texas.

MSU Texas Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at MSU Texas awarded 20 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 50% of these degrees went to men with the other 50% going to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at MSU Texas since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 MSU Texas with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

MSU Texas 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 TX, the home state for MSU Texas.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Public Relations Specialists	28,360	$60,600
Editors	5,490	$72,300
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900
Radio and Television Announcers	2,320	$50,530
Reporters and Correspondents	2,210	$45,910

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.