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Speech Communication at Virginia Tech

Speech Communication at Virginia Tech

If you plan to study speech communication, take a look at what Virginia Tech has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and approximately 37,024 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.

Virginia Tech Speech Communication Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communication

Virginia Tech Speech Communication Rankings

The speech communication major at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech Speech Communication Bachelor’s Program

68% Women
22% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 32% of speech communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 68% went to women.

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About 76% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in speech communication.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 7
Black or African American 15
Hispanic or Latino 17
White 171
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 14

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Public Relations Specialists 6,920 $78,410
Writers and Authors 1,220 $68,600
Radio and Television Announcers 580 $43,660

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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