Communication & Media Studies at Point Loma Nazarene University

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

PLNU is located in San Diego, California and approximately 4,616 students attend the school each year. Of the 954 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2021, 19 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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

PLNU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

PLNU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at PLNU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication & Media Studies. 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
	254
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	442
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	507
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	652

Earnings of PLNU Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at PLNU is $34,147. This is 5% higher than $32,435, which is the national average for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at PLNU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Point Loma Nazarene University.

PLNU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications from PLNU. About 58% were men and 42% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at PLNU since its program graduates 22% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communications bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	9
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Public Relations & Advertising

Careers That Communications Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for Point Loma Nazarene University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Radio and Television Announcers	2,780	$78,840

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 OperaSmorg under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.