Communication Sciences at Rhode Island College

If you are interested in studying communication sciences, 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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students received a bachelor's degree in communication sciences from RIC.

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

RIC Communication Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences

RIC Communication Sciences Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communication sciences progam at RIC 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 communication sciences major at RIC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication Sciences. 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
	184
Most Popular Communication Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	252

Communication Sciences Student Demographics at RIC

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

RIC Communication Sciences Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 communication sciences majors earned their bachelor's degree from RIC. Of these graduates, 13% were men and 88% were women.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication sciences at RIC are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communication sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

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Careers That Communication Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication sciences 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
Speech-Language Pathologists	450	$80,450

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.