Communication & Media Studies at Western Carolina University

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

WCU is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina and approximately 12,243 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 39 communications majors received their bachelor's degree from WCU.

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.

WCU Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

WCU Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how WCU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at WCU 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 Focused Communication & Media Studies Schools	836

Earnings of WCU Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at WCU is $24,661. This is less than $32,435, which is the national average of all communications majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Communications Student Demographics at WCU

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

WCU Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 39 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Communication & Media Studies from WCU in 2020-2021, 54% were men and 46% were women. The typical communications bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at WCU since its program graduates 18% more men than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at WCU 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 Western Carolina University with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

WCU also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 NC, the home state for Western Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Public Relations Specialists	4,750	$64,450
Editors	2,090	$67,450
Communications Professors	1,000	$65,770
Writers and Authors	950	$67,250
Reporters and Correspondents	930	$41,660

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.