Communication & Media Studies at Robert Morris University

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

RMU is located in Moon Township, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 4,134. Of the 857 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Robert Morris University 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.

RMU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

RMU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

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 RMU 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	421

Communications Student Demographics at RMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Robert Morris University.

RMU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 34 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from RMU. Of these graduates, 59% were men and 41% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at RMU since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Robert Morris University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	17
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

RMU 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 PA, the home state for Robert Morris University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Public Relations Specialists	8,390	$61,510
Editors	3,020	$62,870
Writers and Authors	1,400	$60,140
Reporters and Correspondents	1,330	$39,600
Communications Professors	1,280	$76,720

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.