Communication & Media Studies at University of Arkansas at Little Rock

If you plan to study communication & media studies, take a look at what University of Arkansas at Little Rock has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UA Little Rock is located in Little Rock, Arkansas and has a total student population of 8,899.

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.

UA Little Rock Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UA Little Rock Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at UA Little Rock 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.

Communications Student Demographics at UA Little Rock

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

UA Little Rock Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at UA Little Rock since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at UA Little Rock are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communications bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

If you plan to be a communications major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication	33

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism (Other)
• Journalism

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 AR, the home state for University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Occupation	Jobs in AR	Average Salary in AR
Public Relations Specialists	1,110	$60,470
Editors	330	$47,480
Radio and Television Announcers	330	$33,140
Reporters and Correspondents	260	$32,620
Communications Professors	250	$65,060

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 Ualrcomm under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.