Speech Communication at Southern Connecticut State University

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

SCSU is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 9,331 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Speech Communication section at the bottom of this page.

SCSU Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

SCSU Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at SCSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Speech Communication. 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.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at SCSU

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

SCSU Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical speech communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at SCSU since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its speech communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Speech Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in speech communication 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
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.