Communication & Media Studies at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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

UCCS is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has a total student population of 12,380. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 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.

UCCS Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at UCCS

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UCCS does offer online courses in communications for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UCCS Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Communications Student Demographics at UCCS

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

UCCS Communication & Media Studies Master’s Program

The communications program at UCCS awarded 7 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 0% of these degrees went to men with the other 100% going to women.

Of the students who received a communications master's degree from UCCS, 57% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the communications master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 43% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

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

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

Related Majors

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 CO, the home state for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Public Relations Specialists	5,180	$66,510
Editors	2,010	$59,120
Writers and Authors	660	$65,450
Communications Professors	620	$58,270
Reporters and Correspondents	570	$55,930

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
• Image Credit: By Jeffrey M Foster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.