Journalism at Southern Connecticut State University

If you are interested in studying journalism, 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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students received a bachelor's degree in journalism from SCSU.

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

SCSU Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

SCSU Journalism Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The journalism major at SCSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Journalism. 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
	227

Earnings of SCSU Journalism Graduates

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at SCSU is $24,824. This is less than $31,781, which is the national average of all journalism majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Journalism Student Demographics at SCSU

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

SCSU Journalism Bachelor’s Program

The journalism program at SCSU awarded 21 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 43% of these degrees went to men with the other 57% going to women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at SCSU since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in journalism at SCSU are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism 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 journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Communication & Media Studies

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 CT, the home state for Southern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Editors	950	$71,260
Photographers	570	$44,140
Writers and Authors	560	$78,440
Radio and Television Announcers	390	$42,320
Film and Video Editors	310	$73,710

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 Southern Connecticut State University under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.