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Communication & Media Studies at SUNY Geneseo

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at SUNY Geneseo. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SUNY Geneseo is located in Geneseo, New York and approximately 4,911 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,216 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Geneseo in 2021, 98 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.

SUNY Geneseo Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

SUNY Geneseo Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

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 communications major at SUNY Geneseo 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools 33
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools 37
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 280
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Earnings of SUNY Geneseo Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at SUNY Geneseo is $32,563. This is 0% higher than $32,435, which is the national average for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

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Communications Student Demographics at SUNY Geneseo

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

SUNY Geneseo Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

58% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The communications program at SUNY Geneseo awarded 98 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 42% of these degrees went to men with the other 58% going to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at SUNY Geneseo since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

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About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at SUNY Geneseo 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 SUNY Geneseo with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 7
White 79
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Geneseo.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists 24,510 $74,000
Editors 19,140 $83,070
Writers and Authors 7,410 $86,380
Reporters and Correspondents 4,540 $81,930
Communications Professors 3,080 $90,470

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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