Communication & Media Studies at University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

If you are interested in studying communication and media studies, you may want to check out the program at University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UAFS is located in Fort Smith, Arkansas and has a total student population of 5,887. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from UAFS.

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.

UAFS Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UAFS Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how UAFS performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at UAFS 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	302
	636
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	849

Earnings of UAFS Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UAFS is $24,566. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at UAFS

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

UAFS Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at UAFS since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at UAFS 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 University of Arkansas - Fort Smith with a bachelor's in communications.

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

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

Related Majors

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 - Fort Smith.

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 University of Arkansas - Fort Smith under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.