Communication & Media Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California

If you plan to study communication and media studies, take a look at what Saint Mary's College of California has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SMC is located in Moraga, California and approximately 3,439 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 41 communications majors received their bachelor's degree from SMC.

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.

SMC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

SMC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

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 SMC 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 Schools	332
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	393
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	522

Earnings of SMC Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at SMC is $36,184. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 12% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at SMC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Saint Mary’s College of California.

SMC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 41 communications majors earned their bachelor's degree from SMC. Of these graduates, 39% were men and 61% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at SMC since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Saint Mary's College of California with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism (Other)

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 CA, the home state for Saint Mary's College of California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Radio and Television Announcers	2,780	$78,840

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 Smcj0001 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.