Communication Sciences at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

If you are interested in studying communication sciences, 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 approximately 30,559 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,356 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville in 2021, 61 of them were communication sciences majors.

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

UT Knoxville Communication Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences

UT Knoxville Communication Sciences Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communication sciences progam at UT Knoxville 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 communication sciences major at UT Knoxville is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication Sciences. 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 Popular Communication Sciences Schools	144
Most Focused Communication Sciences Schools	280
	294

Communication Sciences Student Demographics at UT Knoxville

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

UT Knoxville Communication Sciences Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 61 students earned a bachelor's degree in communication sciences from UT Knoxville. About 97% of these graduates were women and the other 3% were men.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication sciences 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 communication sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	55
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Public Health
• Nursing

Careers That Communication Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication sciences 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
Health Specialties Professors	5,690	$102,310
Speech-Language Pathologists	2,990	$77,140
Audiologists	450	$71,780

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.