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Speech Communication at Vanderbilt University

Speech Communication at Vanderbilt University

If you are interested in studying speech communication, you may want to check out the program at Vanderbilt University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 students attend the school each year.

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

Vanderbilt Speech Communication Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

Vanderbilt Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at Vanderbilt is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Speech Communication. 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.

Speech Communication Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the speech communication majors at Vanderbilt University.

Vanderbilt Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

64% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 36% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its speech communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Careers That Speech Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in speech communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation Jobs in TN Average Salary in TN
Public Relations Specialists 1,980 $64,170
Writers and Authors 750 $55,370
Radio and Television Announcers 600 $43,560
Communications Professors 310 $56,860
Public Address System Announcers 120 $26,600

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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