Journalism
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Early Career Income
$69,533
Lifetime Income
$3.36M
Unemployment rate
3.2%
Female share
62.1%
Occupation concentration
36.1%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
34.3%
% who double-major
25.7%
BA Graduates from 2024
9,294
-6.5% vs 2023
How Journalism compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
35th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 35% of majors
33rd
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 33% of majors
19th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 19% of majors
Top occupations
- News Analysts, Reporters and Correspondents
- Marketing and Sales Managers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
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 Journalism.
- Journalism
- Broadcast Journalism
- Photojournalism
- Business and Economic Journalism
- Cultural Journalism
- Science/Health/Environmental Journalism
- Journalism, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology