Journalism at Mount Vernon Nazarene University

What traits are you looking for in a journalism school? To help you decide if Mount Vernon Nazarene University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's journalism program.

MVNU is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio and approximately 2,140 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 students received a bachelor's degree in journalism from MVNU.

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

MVNU Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

MVNU Journalism Rankings

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

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 journalism major at MVNU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Journalism Schools	100
Most Popular Journalism Schools	268

Journalism Student Demographics at MVNU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

MVNU Journalism Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of journalism bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at MVNU since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in journalism at MVNU 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 Mount Vernon Nazarene University with a bachelor's in journalism.

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

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in 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 OH, the home state for Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Editors	2,090	$60,670
Photographers	1,880	$42,370
Communications Professors	1,410	$74,860
Writers and Authors	1,360	$48,380
Reporters and Correspondents	1,130	$42,050

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.