Communication & Media Studies at St. Mary’s University

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

St. Mary's is located in San Antonio, Texas and approximately 3,458 students attend the school each year. Of the 532 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary's University in 2021, 18 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.

St. Mary’s Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

St. Mary’s Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at St. Mary's 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 St. Mary's 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 Master’s Degree Schools	265
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	524
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	608
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	657

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in communications from St. Mary’s. This is the #266 most popular school for communications master’s degree candidates in the country.

Communications Student Demographics at St. Mary's

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at St. Mary’s University.

St. Mary’s Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications from St. Mary's. About 39% were men and 61% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at St. Mary's since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 44% 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 St. Mary's University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

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 TX, the home state for St. Mary's University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Public Relations Specialists	28,360	$60,600
Editors	5,490	$72,300
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900
Radio and Television Announcers	2,320	$50,530
Reporters and Correspondents	2,210	$45,910

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 Ngood under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.