Communication & Media Studies at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

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

UMBC is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 13,497.

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.

UMBC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Communications (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UMBC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at UMBC 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 UMBC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

UMBC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 48% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at UMBC since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Maryland - Baltimore County with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	27
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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 Maryland - Baltimore County. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communication & Media Studies	76

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Public Relations Specialists	3,250	$71,030
Editors	2,280	$59,560
Writers and Authors	920	$75,430
Reporters and Correspondents	490	$60,170
Radio and Television Announcers	440	$57,430

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 Tim Menzies under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.