Communication & Media Studies at Tennessee State University

What traits are you looking for in a communications school? To help you decide if Tennessee State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications program.

Tennessee State University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 7,615 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.

Tennessee State University Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Tennessee State University Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Tennessee State University 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 Tennessee State University

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

Tennessee State University Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 41% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 59% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Tennessee State University since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 56% 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 Tennessee State University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	48
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

If you plan to be a communications major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Tennessee State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communications	65

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 TN, the home state for Tennessee State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Public Relations Specialists	1,980	$64,170
Editors	1,690	$54,400
Writers and Authors	750	$55,370
Radio and Television Announcers	600	$43,560
Reporters and Correspondents	530	$37,290

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 The Peep Holes under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.