Sports Communication at Butler University

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

Butler is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and approximately 5,495 students attend the school each year. Of the 439 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Butler University in 2019, 7 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.

Butler Sports Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Communication

Butler Sports Communication Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks sports communication programs across the country. The following shows how Butler 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 Butler 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
Most Popular Sports Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Focused Sports Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	11
Most Popular Sports Communication Schools	11
Most Focused Sports Communication Schools	17

Sports Communication Student Demographics at Butler

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

Butler Sports Communication Bachelor’s Program

The sports communication program at Butler awarded 7 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 86% of these degrees went to men with the other 14% going to women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sports communication at Butler 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 Butler University with a bachelor's in sports communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Butler also has a doctoral program available in sports communication. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• 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 IN, the home state for Butler University.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Public Relations Specialists	3,850	$53,870
Reporters and Correspondents	820	$46,830
Radio and Television Announcers	510	$43,160

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 Peetlesnumber1 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.