Communications
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Early Career Income
$69,902
Lifetime Income
$3.36M
Unemployment rate
3.8%
Female share
61.5%
Occupation concentration
30.4%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
30.8%
% who double-major
21.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
27,583
-1.9% vs 2023
How Communications compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
35th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 35% of majors
20th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 20% of majors
2nd
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 2% of majors
Top occupations
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Marketing and Sales Managers
- Customer Service Representatives
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Communications.
- Speech Communication and Rhetoric
- Communication and Media Studies, Other
- Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology