Journalism at Texas Southern University

If you are interested in studying journalism, you may want to check out the program at Texas Southern University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

TSU is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 7,015 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 22 journalism majors received their bachelor's degree from TSU.

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

TSU Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

TSU Journalism Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the journalism progam at TSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 journalism major at TSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Journalism. 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 Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	56
Most Focused Journalism Schools	67
Most Popular Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	135
Best Value Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	213
	215
	224
Best Value Journalism Schools	226
Best Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	238

Earnings of TSU Journalism Graduates

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at TSU is $27,375. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $31,781 for all journalism students.

Journalism Student Demographics at TSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Texas Southern University.

TSU Journalism Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 journalism majors earned their bachelor's degree from TSU. Of these graduates, 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at TSU since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 64% more racial-ethnic minorities in its journalism bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Texas Southern University with a bachelor's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in journalism can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Texas Southern University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Editors	5,490	$72,300
Photographers	3,070	$34,160
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900
Radio and Television Announcers	2,320	$50,530
Reporters and Correspondents	2,210	$45,910

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 WhisperToMe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.