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Communication & Media Studies at DePaul University

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Communication & Media Studies at DePaul University

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

DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 21,922 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students received their master's degree in communications.

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.

DePaul Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Communications

DePaul Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Communications Student Demographics at DePaul

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

DePaul Communication & Media Studies Master’s Program

76% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The communications program at DePaul awarded 17 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 24% of these degrees went to men with the other 76% going to women.

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Of the students who received a communications master's degree from DePaul, 53% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the communications master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 41% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from DePaul University with a master's in communications.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 9
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 IL, the home state for DePaul University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists 7,360 $66,220
Editors 3,830 $62,590
Writers and Authors 1,880 $68,710
Communications Professors 1,810 $78,810
Reporters and Correspondents 1,260 $53,610

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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