Communications at SUNY Potsdam

41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you plan to study communications, take a look at what SUNY Potsdam has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SUNY Potsdam is located in Potsdam, New York and approximately 3,084 students attend the school each year.

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

SUNY Potsdam Communications Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts

SUNY Potsdam Communications Rankings

The communication arts major at SUNY Potsdam is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communications. 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.

Communication Arts Student Demographics at SUNY Potsdam

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communication arts majors at SUNY Potsdam.

SUNY Potsdam Communications Bachelor’s Program

41% Women

41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 59% of communication arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 41% went to women. The typical communication arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at SUNY Potsdam since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication arts at SUNY Potsdam are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communication arts bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a bachelor's in communication arts.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Careers That Communication Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication arts 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 Potsdam.

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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