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Communication & Media Studies at Salisbury University

Communication & Media Studies at Salisbury University

What traits are you looking for in a communications school? To help you decide if Salisbury University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications program.

Salisbury is located in Salisbury, Maryland and approximately 8,124 students attend the school each year.

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.

Salisbury Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Salisbury Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Salisbury 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 Salisbury

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

Salisbury Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

50% Women
25% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 50% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Salisbury since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Salisbury 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 Salisbury University with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 20
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 90
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 9

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 Salisbury University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication 159

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 MD, the home state for Salisbury University.

Occupation Jobs in MD Average Salary in MD
Public Relations Specialists 3,250 $71,030
Editors 2,280 $59,560
Writers and Authors 920 $75,430
Reporters and Correspondents 490 $60,170
Radio and Television Announcers 440 $57,430

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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