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Communications at University of Missouri - St Louis

Communications at University of Missouri - St Louis

If you are interested in studying communications, you may want to check out the program at University of Missouri - St Louis. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMSL is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and approximately 13,874 students attend the school each year.

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

UMSL Communications Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts

Online Classes Are Available at UMSL

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? UMSL offers distance education options for communication arts at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

UMSL Communications Rankings

The communication arts major at UMSL is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communications. 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.

Communication Arts Student Demographics at UMSL

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communication arts majors at University of Missouri - St Louis.

UMSL Communications Bachelor’s Program

51% Women
31% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 49% of communication arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 51% went to women. The typical communication arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at UMSL since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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About 62% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication arts at UMSL are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Missouri - St Louis with a bachelor's in communication arts.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 9
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 28
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

Careers That Communication Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication arts can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MO, the home state for University of Missouri - St Louis.

Occupation Jobs in MO Average Salary in MO
Public Relations Specialists 4,860 $59,940
Editors 1,160 $55,460
Radio and Television Announcers 890 $35,540
Communications Professors 660 $76,730
Writers and Authors 650 $57,420

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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