Communication & Media Studies at Waldorf University

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

Waldorf is located in Forest City, Iowa and has a total student population of 3,025.

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.

Waldorf Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Communications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Waldorf Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at Waldorf 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.

Communications Student Demographics at Waldorf

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

Waldorf Communication & Media Studies Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of communications associate's degrees went to men and 50% went to women.

Waldorf does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in communications graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Waldorf University with a associate'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	1

Waldorf Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 42% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Waldorf since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Waldorf 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 Waldorf University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	17
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

Communication & Media Studies majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Waldorf University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication	16

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising

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 IA, the home state for Waldorf University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Public Relations Specialists	1,820	$56,880
Editors	940	$51,480
Reporters and Correspondents	560	$32,650
Radio and Television Announcers	530	$34,870
Communications Professors	480	$88,340

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.