Speech Communication at University of Pikeville

Every speech communication school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the speech communication program at University of Pikeville stacks up to those at other schools.

UPIKE is located in Pikeville, Kentucky and has a total student population of 2,240.

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.

UPIKE Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

UPIKE Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at UPIKE 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 UPIKE

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

UPIKE Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 25% 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 UPIKE since its program graduates 38% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 University of Pikeville with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
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 KY, the home state for University of Pikeville.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Public Relations Specialists	2,200	$50,580
Radio and Television Announcers	540	$39,180
Communications Professors	420	$68,530
Writers and Authors	280	$54,320

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.