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Communication & Media Studies at Wayne State College

Communication & Media Studies at Wayne State College

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

WSC is located in Wayne, Nebraska and approximately 4,202 students attend the school each year.

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.

WSC Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

WSC Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The communications major at WSC 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 WSC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at Wayne State College.

WSC Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

55% Women
20% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 45% of communications bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at WSC since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

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About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at WSC 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 Wayne State College with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 16
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Concentrations Within Communication & Media Studies

If you plan to be a communications major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Wayne State College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Speech Communication 14
Communication & Media Studies 9

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 NE, the home state for Wayne State College.

Occupation Jobs in NE Average Salary in NE
Public Relations Specialists 1,370 $51,300
Editors 460 $47,910
Reporters and Correspondents 390 $39,510
Radio and Television Announcers 330 $38,940
Writers and Authors 220 $45,280

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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