A program that focuses on the analysis and criticism of media institutions and media texts, how people experience and understand media content, and the roles of media in producing and transforming culture. Includes instruction in communications regulation, law, and policy; media history; media aesthetics, interpretation, and criticism; the social and cultural effects of mass media; cultural studies; the economics of media industries; visual and media literacy; and the psychology and behavioral aspects of media messages, interpretation, and utilization.
| A major in Mass Communication/Media Studies is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 50
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Mass Communication/Media Studies among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Menlo College
Atherton, CA | 21
(15.0%) |  |  | |
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| | Lynn University
Boca Raton, FL | 63
(14.1%) |  | | |
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| | Johnson C Smith University
Charlotte, NC | 26
(12.2%) |  |  | |
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| | Iona College
New Rochelle, NY | 96
(12.2%) | | | |
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| | Dillard University
New Orleans, LA | 21
(11.9%) | |  | |
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| | Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH | 48
(11.2%) |  | | |
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| | Endicott College
Beverly, MA | 41
(10.9%) | | | |
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| | Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA | 37
(9.8%) | | | |
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| | Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH | 18
(9.5%) | | | |
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| | Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, OK | 52
(9.4%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.