Communication & Media Studies at University of Maryland Global Campus

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

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year. Of the 7,697 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland Global Campus in 2021, 140 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.

UMGC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UMGC does offer online courses in communications for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how UMGC 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 UMGC 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
Most Popular Online Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Best Communication & Media Studies Schools	38
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	119
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools	131
Most Focused Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	791

Earnings of UMGC Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMGC is $47,841. This is 47% higher than $32,435, which is the national average for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at UMGC

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

UMGC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

The communications program at UMGC awarded 140 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 36% of these degrees went to men with the other 64% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Global Campus with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	46
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	64
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising

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 Global Campus.

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 M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.