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Communication & Media Studies at Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Communication & Media Studies at Rutgers University - New Brunswick

If you are interested in studying communication & media studies, you may want to check out the program at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Rutgers New Brunswick is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and has a total student population of 50,411.

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.

Rutgers New Brunswick Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Rutgers New Brunswick Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Rutgers New Brunswick 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.

Communications Student Demographics at Rutgers New Brunswick

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Rutgers New Brunswick Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

69% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 31% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women.

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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 Rutgers University - New Brunswick with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 38
Black or African American 25
Hispanic or Latino 36
White 139
International Students 25
Other Races/Ethnicities 17

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

If you plan to be a communications major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Rutgers University - New Brunswick. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication 312

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 NJ, the home state for Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Occupation Jobs in NJ Average Salary in NJ
Public Relations Specialists 3,850 $75,670
Editors 3,130 $74,130
Writers and Authors 1,050 $81,160
Communications Professors 940 $92,200
Reporters and Correspondents 590 $61,180

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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