General Journalism at Santa Monica College

If you plan to study general journalism, take a look at what Santa Monica College 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 Santa Monica, California and approximately 25,948 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.

SMC General Journalism Degrees Available

Associate’s Degree in Journalism

Online Classes Are Available at SMC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SMC offers distance education options for journalism at the following degree levels:

Associate’s Degree

SMC General Journalism Rankings

Journalism Student Demographics at SMC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Santa Monica College.

SMC General Journalism Associate’s Program

53% Women

65% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of journalism associate's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in journalism only graduates about 34% men each year. The program at SMC may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 13% more women than average.

SMC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in journalism graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Santa Monica College with a associate's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 CA, the home state for Santa Monica College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Broadcast News Analysts	360	$102,480

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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