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 14
North Carolina
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Mass Communication/Media Studies among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Johnson C Smith University
Charlotte, NC | 26
(12.2%) |  |  | |
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| | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC | 354
(8.6%) | | | |
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| | University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, NC | 46
(6.7%) |  |  | |
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| | North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, NC | 78
(6.7%) |  | | |
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| | Bennett College for Women
Greensboro, NC | 7
(6.5%) | | | |
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| | St Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, NC | 11
(6.4%) |  | | |
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| | University of North Carolina at Asheville
Asheville, NC | 45
(6.4%) | | | |
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| | Barton College
Wilson, NC | 10
(4.8%) | | | |
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| | North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC | 39
(4.6%) | | | |
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| | Shaw University
Raleigh, NC | 15
(3.6%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.