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Communication & Media Studies at Westmont College

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Communication & Media Studies at Westmont College

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

Westmont is located in Santa Barbara, California and approximately 1,226 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 29 students received a bachelor's degree in communications from Westmont.

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.

Westmont Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Westmont Communication & Media Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the communications progam at Westmont compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at Westmont 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools 23
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 67
Best Communication & Media Studies Schools 69
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Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 387
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools 391
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools 425
Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools 495

Earnings of Westmont Communications Graduates

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at Westmont is $37,638. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 16% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

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Communications Student Demographics at Westmont

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

Westmont Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

79% Women
21% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The communications program at Westmont awarded 29 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 21% of these degrees went to men with the other 79% going to women.

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About 66% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at Westmont 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 Westmont College with a bachelor's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 19
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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

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 CA, the home state for Westmont College.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists 26,820 $72,910
Editors 11,060 $78,150
Writers and Authors 7,910 $96,910
Reporters and Correspondents 3,430 $67,820
Radio and Television Announcers 2,780 $78,840

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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