Communication & Media Studies at Rhode Island College

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at Rhode Island College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 7,072 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,463 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rhode Island College in 2021, 34 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.

RIC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

RIC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at RIC 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 communications major at RIC 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
	550

Earnings of RIC Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at RIC is $27,864. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at RIC

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

RIC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 34 communications students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from RIC, about 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at RIC since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at RIC are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

RIC 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 RI, the home state for Rhode Island College.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Public Relations Specialists	1,150	$67,480
Editors	200	$66,900
Writers and Authors	180	$63,820
Communications Professors	120	$80,330

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 Arctichistorian01 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.