Arts & Media Management at University of Southern Mississippi

What traits are you looking for in a media management school? To help you decide if University of Southern Mississippi is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's media management program.

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and approximately 14,606 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 25 students received a bachelor's degree in media management from Southern Miss.

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

Southern Miss Arts & Media Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Media Management

Southern Miss Arts & Media Management Rankings

The media management major at Southern Miss is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Arts & Media Management. 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.

Earnings of Southern Miss Media Management Graduates

The median salary of media management students who receive their bachelor's degree at Southern Miss is $31,091. This is 15% higher than $26,957, which is the national average for all media management bachelor's degree recipients.

Media Management Student Demographics at Southern Miss

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the media management majors at University of Southern Mississippi.

Southern Miss Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 25 students earned a bachelor's degree in media management from Southern Miss. About 12% of these graduates were women and the other 88% were men. The typical media management bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% men. So male students are more repesented at Southern Miss since its program graduates 49% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its media management bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in media management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Southern Miss also has a doctoral program available in media management. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Dance
• General Visual & Performing Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Music

Careers That Media Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in media management can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MS, the home state for University of Southern Mississippi.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Managers	1,230	$82,230
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	660	$62,540
Producers and Directors	290	$44,310
Music Directors and Composers	80	$53,000

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 Dudemanfellabra under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.