Sports Communication at Ithaca College

If you plan to study sports communication, take a look at what Ithaca College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Ithaca is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 5,354 students attend the school each year. Of the 315 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 2021, 33 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.

Ithaca Sports Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Communication

Ithaca Sports Communication Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the sports communication progam at Ithaca compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The sports communication major at Ithaca 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.

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Sports Communication Student Demographics at Ithaca

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

Ithaca Sports Communication Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in sports communication from Ithaca. About 76% were men and 24% were women.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sports communication at Ithaca are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• General Organizational Communication
• 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 NY, the home state for Ithaca College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists	24,510	$74,000
Reporters and Correspondents	4,540	$81,930
Artist, Athlete, and Performer Agents and Business Managers	3,460	$100,560
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470
Radio and Television Announcers	1,690	$74,220

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 Mr Senseless under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.