Communication & Media Studies at Pomona College

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

Pomona is located in Claremont, California and approximately 1,475 students attend the school each year. Of the 395 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College in 2021, 18 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.

Pomona Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Pomona Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Pomona performed in these rankings.

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 Pomona 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
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	145
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	164
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	522
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	657

Communications Student Demographics at Pomona

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Pomona College.

Pomona Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in communications from Pomona in 2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Pomona since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

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 Pomona College.

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 Nostalgicwisdom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.