Speech Communication at Nebraska Wesleyan University

If you plan to study speech communication, take a look at what Nebraska Wesleyan University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NWU is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and approximately 1,924 students attend the school each year.

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

NWU Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

NWU Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at NWU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Speech Communication. 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.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at NWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the speech communication majors at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

NWU Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women. The typical speech communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at NWU since its program graduates 18% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at NWU 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 Nebraska Wesleyan University with a bachelor's in speech communication.

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

Related Majors

Careers That Speech Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in speech communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NE, the home state for Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in NE	Average Salary in NE
Public Relations Specialists	1,370	$51,300
Radio and Television Announcers	330	$38,940
Writers and Authors	220	$45,280
Communications Professors	140	$71,140
Public Address System Announcers	50	$29,240

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.