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Communication & Media Studies at Purchase College

Communication & Media Studies at Purchase College

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

Purchase College is located in Purchase, New York and approximately 3,685 students attend the school each year.

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.

Purchase College Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Purchase College Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Purchase College 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.

Communications Student Demographics at Purchase College

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

Purchase College Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

54% Women
51% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 46% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 54% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Purchase College since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 Purchase College with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 9
Hispanic or Latino 15
White 29
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

The following communications concentations are available at Purchase College. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Purchase College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Communications 47
Communication & Media Studies 10

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 Purchase College.

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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