Communication & Media Studies at Stetson University

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

Stetson is located in DeLand, Florida and approximately 4,462 students attend the school each year. Of the 755 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Stetson University in 2021, 32 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.

Stetson Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Stetson Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Stetson performed in these rankings.

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 Stetson 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
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	322
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	361
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	406
	417
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	463

Earnings of Stetson Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Stetson is $30,620. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at Stetson

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

Stetson Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at Stetson awarded 32 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 34% of these degrees went to men with the other 66% going to women.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Stetson 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 Stetson University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	24
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Stetson 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 FL, the home state for Stetson University.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Public Relations Specialists	12,050	$60,920
Editors	4,190	$58,200
Writers and Authors	1,830	$53,140
Reporters and Correspondents	1,740	$53,810
Radio and Television Announcers	1,350	$56,960

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 Ebyabe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.