Composition and Speech
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Early Career Income
$54,598
Lifetime Income
$2.87M
Unemployment rate
4.6%
Female share
63.2%
Occupation concentration
37.0%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
33.9%
% who double-major
40.7%
BA Graduates from 2024
4,126
+3.5% vs 2023
How Composition and Speech compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
12th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 12% of majors
9th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 9% of majors
24th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 24% of majors
Top occupations
- Writers and Authors
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
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 Composition and Speech.
- Creative Writing
- Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology