Communication & Media Studies at St. John Fisher College

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

Fisher is located in Rochester, New York and approximately 3,610 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 29 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from Fisher.

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.

Fisher Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Fisher Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at Fisher 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 communications major at Fisher 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
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	197
	211
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	360
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	391
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools	397

How Much Do Communications Graduates from Fisher Make?

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Fisher is $34,940. This is 8% higher than $32,435, which is the national average for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at Fisher

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at St. John Fisher College.

Fisher Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 29 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from Fisher. Of these graduates, 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Fisher since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Fisher are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	26
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 NY, the home state for St. John Fisher College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists	24,510	$74,000
Editors	19,140	$83,070
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380
Reporters and Correspondents	4,540	$81,930
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470

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 Stephen Wolfe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.