Communication institutions in California.

Understand the field and the list

Official CIP classification: Speech Communication and Rhetoric.

A program that focuses on the scientific, humanistic, and critical study of human communication in a variety of formats, media, and contexts. Includes instruction in the theory and practice of interpersonal, group, organizational, professional, and intercultural communication; speaking and listening; verbal and nonverbal interaction; rhetorical theory and criticism; performance studies; argumentation and persuasion; technologically mediated communication; popular culture; and various contextual applications.

This list uses the latest connected positive bachelor completion record for each institution in this CIP field. Award counts describe historical completions, not admissions capacity, quality, rankings or a current program guarantee. A related course may be classified under another code.

Compare the institution’s actual curriculum, campus, degree title and current application instructions. Historical out-of-state undergraduate charges are institution-level figures and may not describe this specific degree or international-student category.

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The source is the connected IPEDS first-major completion dataset, using bachelor award level 5 and exact six-digit CIP 09.0101. Full source evidence and other connected years are available from institution pages.

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