Communication & Media Studies at University of the Cumberlands

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

Cumberlands is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky and has a total student population of 19,110. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from Cumberlands.

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.

Cumberlands Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at Cumberlands

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.

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

• Associate’s Degree

Cumberlands Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how Cumberlands 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 Cumberlands 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 Communication & Media Studies Schools	882

Communications Student Demographics at Cumberlands

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

Cumberlands Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 9 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from Cumberlands in 2020-2021, 22% were men and 78% were women.

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

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

Cumberlands 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 KY, the home state for University of the Cumberlands.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Public Relations Specialists	2,200	$50,580
Editors	770	$44,050
Reporters and Correspondents	740	$50,190
Radio and Television Announcers	540	$39,180
Communications Professors	420	$68,530

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 Ichabod under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.