Communications Technologies & Support at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you plan to study communications technologies & support, 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 has a total student population of 58,526.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Communications Technologies & Support section at the bottom of this page.

UMGC Communications Technologies & Support Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Technologies & Support

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UMGC offers distance education options for communications technologies & support at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC Communications Technologies & Support Rankings

The communications technologies & support major at UMGC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communications Technologies & Support. 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 Technologies & Support Student Demographics at UMGC

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

UMGC Communications Technologies & Support Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of communications technologies & support bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women. The typical communications technologies & support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 32% more women than 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 technologies & support.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Concentrations Within Communications Technologies & Support

The following communications technologies & support concentations are available at University of Maryland Global Campus. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Maryland Global Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Graphic Communications	63

Related Majors

• Computer & Information Sciences

Careers That Communications Technologies & Support Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications technologies & support 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
Data Entry Keyers	2,810	$36,420
Printing Press Operators	2,170	$39,850
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians	1,150	$47,340
Prepress Technicians	750	$44,840
Broadcast Technicians	520	$54,330

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.