Communication & Media Studies at University of California - Berkeley

What traits are you looking for in a communications school? To help you decide if University of California - Berkeley is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's communications program.

UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and approximately 42,327 students attend the school each year. Of the 10,523 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - Berkeley in 2021, 268 of them were communication and media studies majors.

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.

UC Berkeley Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UC Berkeley Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at UC Berkeley 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.

Earnings of UC Berkeley Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley is $48,287. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 49% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at UC Berkeley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at University of California - Berkeley.

UC Berkeley Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 268 students earned a bachelor's degree in communications from UC Berkeley. About 79% of these graduates were women and the other 21% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% 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 California - Berkeley with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	74
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	57
White	78
International Students	31
Other Races/Ethnicities	23

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

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 CA, the home state for University of California - Berkeley.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
Reporters and Correspondents	3,430	$67,820
Radio and Television Announcers	2,780	$78,840

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 LAgirl5252 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.