Communication & Media Studies at University of Florida

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

UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and approximately 53,372 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 129 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.

UF Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Communications
• Doctorate Degree in Communications

Online Classes Are Available at UF

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UF offers distance education options for communications at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UF Communication & Media Studies Rankings

There were 12 students who received their doctoral degrees in communications, making the school the #7 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Communications Student Demographics at UF

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

UF Communication & Media Studies Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 129 communications majors earned their master's degree from UF. Of these graduates, 22% were men and 78% were women.

Of the students who received a communications master's degree from UF, 63% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	81
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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 FL, the home state for University of Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Public Relations Specialists	12,050	$60,920
Editors	4,190	$58,200
Writers and Authors	1,830	$53,140
Reporters and Correspondents	1,740	$53,810
Radio and Television Announcers	1,350	$56,960

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 DouglasGreen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.