Journalism at Pacific University

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

Pacific is located in Forest Grove, Oregon and approximately 3,808 students attend the school each year. Of the 470 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Pacific University in 2021, 4 of them were journalism majors.

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

Pacific Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

Pacific Journalism Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the journalism progam at Pacific compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The journalism major at Pacific 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 Focused Journalism Schools	295
Most Popular Journalism Schools	330

Journalism Student Demographics at Pacific

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

Pacific Journalism Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of journalism bachelor's degrees went to men and 25% went to women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at Pacific since its program graduates 41% more men than average.

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 OR, the home state for Pacific University.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
Editors	1,080	$55,610
Writers and Authors	700	$69,050
Photographers	670	$36,440
Reporters and Correspondents	450	$48,960
Communications Professors	390	$80,700

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 M.O. Stevens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.