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Speech Communication at Northwestern University

Speech Communication at Northwestern University

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

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and approximately 22,603 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.

Northwestern Speech Communication Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

Northwestern Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at Northwestern 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.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in speech communication, making the school the #31 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

73% Women
44% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 27% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its speech communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 18
Black or African American 8
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 37
International Students 7
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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 IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists 7,360 $66,220
Writers and Authors 1,880 $68,710
Communications Professors 1,810 $78,810
Radio and Television Announcers 920 $52,020
Public Address System Announcers 410 $29,430

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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