Speech Communication at Northern Michigan University

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

Northern Michigan University is located in Marquette, Michigan and has a total student population of 7,368.

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.

Northern Michigan University Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

Northern Michigan University Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at Northern Michigan University 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 Northern Michigan University

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

Northern Michigan University Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% 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 Northern Michigan University since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at Northern Michigan University 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 Northern Michigan University with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 MI, the home state for Northern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Public Relations Specialists	6,280	$61,760
Writers and Authors	1,120	$60,850
Communications Professors	900	$71,770
Radio and Television Announcers	850	$40,340

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.