Sports Communication at DePaul University

Every sports communication school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the sports communication program at DePaul University stacks up to those at other schools.

DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 21,922 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,212 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University in 2021, 19 of them were sports communication majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Sports Communication section at the bottom of this page.

DePaul Sports Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Communication

DePaul Sports Communication Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks sports communication programs across the country. The following shows how DePaul performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The sports communication major at DePaul is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Sports Communication. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	10
	13
	17
	21
	31

Sports Communication Student Demographics at DePaul

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the sports communication majors at DePaul University.

DePaul Sports Communication Bachelor’s Program

Of the 19 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in sports communication from DePaul in 2021, 58% were men and 42% were women. The typical sports communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at DePaul since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sports communication at DePaul are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its sports communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor's in sports communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

DePaul also has a doctoral program available in sports communication. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health Communication
• General Organizational Communication
• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

Careers That Sports Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in sports communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for DePaul University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Reporters and Correspondents	1,260	$53,610
Radio and Television Announcers	920	$52,020
Artist, Athlete, and Performer Agents and Business Managers	260	$67,000

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Just under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.