Communication & Media Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University

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

Southeastern is located in Hammond, Louisiana and approximately 14,426 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,867 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2021, 59 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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.

Southeastern Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Southeastern Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Southeastern 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.

How Much Do Communications Graduates from Southeastern Make?

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Southeastern is $25,964. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,435 for all communications students.

Communications Student Demographics at Southeastern

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

Southeastern Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at Southeastern awarded 59 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 51% of these degrees went to men with the other 49% going to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Southeastern since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Southeastern are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Southeastern Louisiana University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	34
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising

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 LA, the home state for Southeastern Louisiana University.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Public Relations Specialists	1,350	$53,390
Reporters and Correspondents	460	$57,990
Editors	450	$42,340
Radio and Television Announcers	320	$30,040
Writers and Authors	260	$44,710

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 Richard David Ramsey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.