Journalism at Northeastern State University

If you are interested in studying journalism, you may want to check out the program at Northeastern State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NSU is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and approximately 7,349 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students received a bachelor's degree in journalism from NSU.

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

NSU Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

NSU Journalism Rankings

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

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 journalism major at NSU 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 Popular Journalism Schools	207

How Much Do Journalism Graduates from NSU Make?

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at NSU is $31,510. This is less than $31,781, which is the national average of all journalism majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Journalism Student Demographics at NSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Northeastern State University.

NSU Journalism Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from NSU. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at NSU since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northeastern State University with a bachelor's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• 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 OK, the home state for Northeastern State University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
Editors	700	$44,380
Reporters and Correspondents	480	$38,300
Photographers	360	$31,940
Communications Professors	330	$50,700
Radio and Television Announcers	310	$35,900

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 CPacker under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.