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Communication & Media Studies at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

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Communication & Media Studies at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

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

UT Chattanooga is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee and approximately 11,728 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,139 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga in 2021, 102 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.

UT Chattanooga Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UT Chattanooga Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at UT Chattanooga 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 communications major at UT Chattanooga 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 197
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools 231
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 259
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 295

Earnings of UT Chattanooga Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UT Chattanooga is $30,562. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

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Communications Student Demographics at UT Chattanooga

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

UT Chattanooga Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The communications program at UT Chattanooga awarded 102 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 29% of these degrees went to men with the other 71% going to women.

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About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at UT Chattanooga 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 The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 12
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 83
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

UT Chattanooga 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 TN, the home state for The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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