Communications Technologies & Support at Southwestern Illinois College

What traits are you looking for in a communications technologies & support school? To help you decide if Southwestern Illinois College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications technologies & support program.

SWIC is located in Belleville, Illinois and has a total student population of 6,906.

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

SWIC Communications Technologies & Support Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Communications Technologies & Support (Less Than 1 Year)
• Associate’s Degree in Communications Technologies & Support

Online Classes Are Available at SWIC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SWIC offers distance education options for communications technologies & support at the following degree levels:

SWIC Communications Technologies & Support Rankings

Communications Technologies & Support Student Demographics at SWIC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications technologies & support majors at Southwestern Illinois College.

SWIC Communications Technologies & Support Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of communications technologies & support associate's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in communications technologies & support only graduates about 40% women each year. The program at SWIC may seem more female-friendly since it graduates 3% more women than average.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in communications technologies & support at SWIC are white. Around 57% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southwestern Illinois College with a associate's in communications technologies & support.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Communications Technologies & Support

If you plan to be a communications technologies & support major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southwestern Illinois College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Graphic Communications	5
Audiovisual Communications	2

Related Majors

• Computer & Information Sciences

Careers That Communications Technologies & Support Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications technologies & support can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Southwestern Illinois College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Printing Press Operators	9,590	$44,050
Data Entry Keyers	8,140	$36,210
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians	2,740	$43,590
Prepress Technicians	1,370	$48,110
Broadcast Technicians	1,300	$50,140

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.