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 12
Louisiana
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Mass Communication/Media Studies among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
|  | Dillard University New Orleans, LA | 21 (11.9%) |  |  | |
|  | Grambling State University Grambling, LA | 37 (6.9%) |  |  | |
|  | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA | 253 (5.5%) |  |  | |
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|  | Louisiana College Pineville, LA | 6 (4.7%) |  |  | |
|  | Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | 15 (4.4%) |  |  | |
|  | Nicholls State University Thibodaux, LA | 30 (4.1%) |  |  | |
|  | Southern University and A & M College Baton Rouge, LA | 37 (3.9%) |  |  | |
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|  | McNeese State University Lake Charles, LA | 35 (3.3%) |  |  | |
|  | Louisiana State University-Shreveport Shreveport, LA | 13 (2.5%) |  |  | |
|  | University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA | 45 (2.1%) |  |  | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.