Communication & Media Studies at Morningside College

What traits are you looking for in a communications school? To help you decide if Morningside College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications program.

Morningside is located in Sioux City, Iowa and approximately 2,411 students attend the school each year. Of the 285 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Morningside College in 2021, 10 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.

Morningside Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Morningside Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Morningside performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Morningside 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 Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	578
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	688

Communications Student Demographics at Morningside

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

Morningside Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from Morningside. Of these graduates, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Morningside since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Morningside 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 Morningside College with a bachelor's in communications.

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

Morningside also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• 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 IA, the home state for Morningside College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Public Relations Specialists	1,820	$56,880
Editors	940	$51,480
Reporters and Correspondents	560	$32,650
Radio and Television Announcers	530	$34,870
Communications Professors	480	$88,340

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.