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Communications Schools in Oakland

Oakland, CA (population: 412,612) has four communications schools within its city limits. Holy Names University, the highest ranked school in the city with a communications program, has a total student population of 1,135. It is the 669th highest ranked school in the USA and the 41st highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about communications programs in Oakland, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of communications professors at Holy Names University such as Anastasia Prentiss, and Kerry Wieder.

Communications students from Oakland schools who go on to become communication disorder specialists, speech therapists, speech language pathologists, teacher of the speech and hearing handicappeds, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 25,090 people working as communications teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,190. Also, Rehabilitation counselors make on average $34,710 per year and there are about 112,690 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area alone, there are 650 employed rehabilitation counselors earning an average salary of $47,210. Communications teachers in this area earn $89,600/yr and there are 170 employed.

Oakland lies in Alameda county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area has 990,570 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $26/hr average worker wage, and a $54,590 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Oakland are held by communications teachers, and 1/1000 are held by rehabilitation counselors.

Of the 4 communications schools in Oakland, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, California College of the Arts comes out as the most expensive ($30,933/yr) for communications students, with Laney College as the lowest, reported at only $7,253/yr.

Communications Programs in Oakland

• Business/Corporate Communications
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Design and Visual Communications, General
  

  Levels offered: Masters

• Communications technologies/technicians and support services
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

• Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
  

  Levels offered: Associates

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