Communication & Media Studies at Southern Connecticut State University

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at Southern Connecticut State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SCSU is located in New Haven, Connecticut and has a total student population of 9,331. Of the 1,719 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University in 2021, 69 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.

SCSU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

SCSU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at SCSU 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 SCSU 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	312
	413
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	604

Earnings of SCSU Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at SCSU is $30,995. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,435 for all communications students.

Communications Student Demographics at SCSU

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

SCSU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 69 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from SCSU in 2020-2021, 49% were men and 51% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at SCSU since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at SCSU 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 Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	48
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Journalism

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 CT, the home state for Southern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Public Relations Specialists	1,780	$73,600
Editors	950	$71,260
Writers and Authors	560	$78,440
Radio and Television Announcers	390	$42,320
Communications Professors	270	$83,720

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 Southern Connecticut State University under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.