Speech Communication at University of Hawaii at Hilo

If you plan to study speech communication, take a look at what University of Hawaii at Hilo has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UH Hilo is located in Hilo, Hawaii and has a total student population of 3,165.

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.

UH Hilo Speech Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

UH Hilo Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at UH Hilo 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 UH Hilo

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

UH Hilo Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% 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 UH Hilo since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 44% 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 Hawaii at Hilo with a bachelor's in speech communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	3
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	22

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 HI, the home state for University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Occupation	Jobs in HI	Average Salary in HI
Public Relations Specialists	1,260	$64,830
Radio and Television Announcers	160	$47,040
Communications Professors	120	$60,030
Writers and Authors	70	$50,740
Public Address System Announcers	30	$49,450

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 Vreed under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.