Communication & Media Studies at Shenandoah University

If you plan to study communication and media studies, take a look at what Shenandoah University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Shenandoah is located in Winchester, Virginia and approximately 4,174 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from Shenandoah.

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.

Shenandoah Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Shenandoah Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at Shenandoah compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Shenandoah 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 Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	680

Communications Student Demographics at Shenandoah

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

Shenandoah Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 10 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from Shenandoah in 2020-2021, 70% were men and 30% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Shenandoah since its program graduates 34% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% 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 Shenandoah University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

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 VA, the home state for Shenandoah University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Public Relations Specialists	6,920	$78,410
Editors	3,450	$72,660
Writers and Authors	1,220	$68,600
Reporters and Correspondents	740	$49,530
Radio and Television Announcers	580	$43,660

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Shenandoah Office of Marketing and Communications under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.