Speech Communication at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Every speech communication school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the speech communication program at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville stacks up to those at other schools.

UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 30,559.

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

UT Knoxville Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

UT Knoxville Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at UT Knoxville is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Speech Communication. 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.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at UT Knoxville

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the speech communication majors at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

UT Knoxville Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical speech communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Knoxville since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at UT Knoxville 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 - Knoxville with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	101
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Related Majors

• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Speech Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in speech communication 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 - Knoxville.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Public Relations Specialists	1,980	$64,170
Writers and Authors	750	$55,370
Radio and Television Announcers	600	$43,560
Communications Professors	310	$56,860
Public Address System Announcers	120	$26,600

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 Nightryder84 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.