Speech Communication at University of Alabama at Birmingham

What traits are you looking for in a speech communication school? To help you decide if University of Alabama at Birmingham is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's speech communication program.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year.

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.

UAB Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication
• Master’s Degree in Speech Communication

UAB Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at UAB 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 UAB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the speech communication majors at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 42% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% 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 UAB since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at UAB are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its speech communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	44
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UAB Speech Communication Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 36% of speech communication master's degrees went to men and 64% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a master's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

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 AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Public Relations Specialists	1,890	$53,890
Communications Professors	250	$64,270
Radio and Television Announcers	240	$31,880
Writers and Authors	190	$58,590

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.