Graduates earn a median $29,995 two years after finishing, more than 12% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 405 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
On earnings alone this is among the lowest-paying majors at this level. That does not make it a bad subject, but it does make the debt you take on for it matter more.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute cost & debt at this university → | not published | $63,005 | not published | 2 |
| 2 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | $67,997 | $58,673 | $69,552 | 65 |
| 3 | New York University cost & debt at this university → | $44,800 | $49,019 | $58,165 | 438 |
| 4 | University of Baltimore cost & debt at this university → | $34,019 | $45,852 | not published | 9 |
| 5 | Miami University-Oxford | $44,973 | $45,696 | $54,492 | 109 |
| 6 | Miami University-Middletown | $44,973 | $45,696 | $54,492 | — |
| 7 | Miami University-Hamilton | $44,973 | $45,696 | $54,492 | — |
| 8 | Savannah College of Art and Design | $39,934 | $44,817 | $50,056 | 353 |
| 9 | St. John Fisher University | not published | $42,908 | not published | 3 |
| 10 | Lebanon Valley College cost & debt at this university → | $40,807 | $41,565 | $50,588 | 19 |
| 11 | University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus | $40,698 | $41,205 | $57,917 | — |
| 12 | University of Connecticut-Stamford | $40,698 | $41,205 | $57,917 | — |
Two medians are worth separating. $29,995 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $29,350 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $42,682, so Broadcasting sits below the middle by $12,687.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
Whatever the subject pays, the money you do not borrow is the money you keep.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Radio, Television, and Digital Communication (CIP 0907). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.