Communication & Media Studies at National Louis University

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

NLU is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 7,402 students attend the school each year. Of the 764 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from National Louis University in 2021, 18 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.

NLU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at NLU

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? NLU offers distance education options for communications at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NLU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at NLU 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 NLU 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	30
Most Popular Online Communication & Media Studies Schools	40
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	522
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	820

Communications Student Demographics at NLU

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

NLU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in communications from NLU in 2021, 39% were men and 61% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at NLU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% 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 National Louis University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

NLU 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 IL, the home state for National Louis University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Editors	3,830	$62,590
Writers and Authors	1,880	$68,710
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Reporters and Correspondents	1,260	$53,610

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 TonyTheTiger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.