Communication & Media Studies at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

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

UMBC is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 13,497. Of the 2,725 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland - Baltimore County in 2021, 76 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.

UMBC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

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

UMBC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	22
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	232
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	508

How Much Do Communications Graduates from UMBC Make?

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMBC is $27,819. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,435 for all communications students.

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

Of the 76 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from UMBC in 2020-2021, 47% were men and 53% were 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 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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	8
Black or African American	22
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	34
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

UMBC 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 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.