Business & Corporate Communications
Add ComparisonIn 2023, the locations with the highest concentration of Business & Corporate Communications degree recipients are New York, NY, Orange, CA, and Cambridge, MA. In 2023, the locations with a relatively high number of Business & Corporate Communications degree recipients are Dunmore, PA, Valley View, PA, and Owings Mills, MD. The most common degree awarded to students studying Business & Corporate Communications is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Business & Corporate Communications and the types of students that study this field. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College awards the most degrees in Business & Corporate Communications in the US, but Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton and Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications.
Tuition costs for Business & Corporate Communications majors are, on average, $9,718 for in-state public colleges, and $37,720 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Business & Corporate Communications programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (40 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (402 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (402 completions in 2023).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Business & Corporate Communications programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College has the most Business & Corporate Communications degree recipients, with 200 degrees awarded in 2023.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications.
Out of all institutions that offer Business & Corporate Communications programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications, with 7.89%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications by year.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Business graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Business majors is $109,808 and the most common occupations are Accountants & auditors, Other managers, and Financial managers.
The industry that employs the most Business majors is uninformed, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments.
The average salary for Business majors is $109,808 and the most common occupations are Accountants & auditors, Other managers, and Financial managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Business majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Business majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Business majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations for Business majors, by number of employees, are Accountants & auditors, Other managers, and Financial managers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Business majors working as Accountants & auditors, Financial examiners, and Financial analysts.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Business majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Nuclear medicine technologists and medical dosimetrists.
The number of Business graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.33%, from 12M in 2022 to 12.2M in 2023.
The largest single share of Business graduates go on to work as Accountants & auditors (8.91%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Business by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Business majors, by number of employees, are uninformed, Elementary & secondary schools, and Computer Systems Design.
The highest paying industries of Business majors, by average wage, are Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments, Oil & gas extraction, and Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing.
The number of Business graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.33%, from 12M in 2022 to 12.2M in 2023.
The industry which employs the most Business graduates by share is uninformed, followed by Elementary & secondary schools. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Business.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Business majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Business majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Business. The most common ages of employees with this major are 40 and 39 years old, which represent 2.68% and 2.6% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Business & Corporate Communications are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Business are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Business & Corporate Communications.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Business & Corporate Communications for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Business & Corporate Communications.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Singapore that hold Business degrees (2.55 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (181,180 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Business & Corporate Communications field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Business & Corporate Communications majors need many skills, but most especially Writing. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Business & Corporate Communications majors need more than the average amount of Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Active Learning.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Business & Corporate Communications majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Writing is very distinctive for majors, but the Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
