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General Journalism at Rutgers University - New Brunswick

General Journalism at Rutgers University - New Brunswick

If you plan to study general journalism, take a look at what Rutgers University - New Brunswick has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Rutgers New Brunswick is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and approximately 50,411 students attend the school each year.

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

Rutgers New Brunswick General Journalism Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

Rutgers New Brunswick General Journalism Rankings

The journalism major at Rutgers New Brunswick is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Journalism. 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.

Journalism Student Demographics at Rutgers New Brunswick

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

Rutgers New Brunswick General Journalism Bachelor’s Program

64% Women
46% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 36% of journalism bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at Rutgers New Brunswick since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism 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 journalism.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 13
Black or African American 14
Hispanic or Latino 26
White 52
International Students 11
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in journalism 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
Editors 3,130 $74,130
Writers and Authors 1,050 $81,160
Communications Professors 940 $92,200
Reporters and Correspondents 590 $61,180
Broadcast News Analysts 340 $44,660

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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