Journalism at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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

UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 30,559. Of the 5,356 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville in 2021, 106 of them were journalism majors.

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

UT Knoxville Journalism Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism

UT Knoxville Journalism Rankings

The journalism major at UT Knoxville 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.

How Much Do Journalism Graduates from UT Knoxville Make?

The median salary of journalism students who receive their bachelor's degree at UT Knoxville is $28,367. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $31,781 for all journalism students.

Journalism Student Demographics at UT Knoxville

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

UT Knoxville Journalism Bachelor’s Program

Of the 106 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in journalism from UT Knoxville in 2021, 42% were men and 58% were women. The typical journalism bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Knoxville since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in journalism 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 journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	80
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising
• 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 TN, the home state for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Editors	1,690	$54,400
Photographers	810	$33,170
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 Nightryder84 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.