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Enrollment Growth Exceeds National University Averages

An estimated 147,000 students were enrolled in journalism and mass communication programs in the autumn of 1988, the vast majority of them studying for a baccalaureate degree. Enrollments, not surprisingly, are largest at the accredited journalism programs and smallest at the universities that are not accredited and are not members of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. The “average” journalism and mass communication program enrolls about 375 students. More than 33,500 degrees were granted by journalism and mass communication programs in academic year 1987-88. Only 7 percent of these were graduate degrees. Undergraduate enrollments appear to have leveled off, with 1987 and 1988 estimates nearly identical. Graduate enrollments in 1988 grew nearly 10 percent from a year earlier. The overall pattern of growth in journalism and mass communication enrollments is quite dramatic, particularly in comparison with national figures on growth in university enrollments. From 1976 to 1988, undergraduate enrollments in journalism and mass communication increased an estimated 32 percent, while nationally undergraduate enrollments in all areas of study increased 18.1 percent. During this same 13year period, graduate enrollments in journalism and mass communication increased 9.5 percent, compared with a national figure of 8.3 percent. At the same time, the number of bachelor’s degrees granted in journalism and mass communication increased 41.8 percent, while the number of such degrees granted nationally increased 6.8 percent. The number of graduate degrees granted in journalism and mass communication declined by 12.6 percent from 1976 to 1988, while the decline nationally was 5.7 percent. These findings are the result of the 1988 annual survey of journalism and mass communication enrollments. Similar surveys have been conducted at Ohio State University since the 1960s. The 1988 survey, however, differed from earlier surveys in a variety of ways.