Seattle, WA (population: 614,214) has eleven communications schools within its city limits. University of Washington-Seattle Campus, the highest ranked school in the city with a communications program, has a total student population of 45,943. It is the 26th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Washington. To learn more about communications programs in Seattle, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of communications professors at University of Washington such as Vanessa Au, Gerald Baldasty, Randy Beam, Katherine Bell, Anthony (tony) Chan, and Tony Chan.
Communications students from Seattle 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 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett Metropolitan area alone, there are 2,940 employed rehabilitation counselors earning an average salary of $38,790. Communications teachers in this area earn $56,160/yr and there are 190 employed.
Seattle lies in King county, which is one of the 24 counties in Washington. Overall, the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett Metropolitan area has 1,404,710 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $25.60/hr average worker wage, and a $53,240 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.138 out of every 1000 jobs in Seattle are held by communications teachers, and 2.092/1000 are held by rehabilitation counselors.
Of the 11 communications schools in Seattle, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Seattle comes out as the most expensive ($28,174/yr) for communications students, with Seattle Community College-South Campus as the lowest, reported at only $6,159/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Seattle |
| Kirkland | WA | 48,153 | 2 | 17.9541 | 117 | 8.5 miles |
| Bellevue | WA | 128,225 | 4 | 10.794 | 140 | 9.0 miles |
| Tukwila | WA | - | 1 | 9.30665 | 25 | 10.9 miles |
| Bothell | WA | - | 2 | 28.3486 | 26 | 11.9 miles |
| Renton | WA | 66,884 | 4 | 19.959 | 76 | 12.0 miles |
| Lynnwood | WA | - | 1 | 17.534 | 76 | 14.0 miles |
| Edmonds | WA | 40,568 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.6 miles |
| Kent | WA | 84,987 | 1 | 34.1348 | 6 | 16.7 miles |
| Federal Way | WA | 84,659 | 2 | 22.1387 | 18 | 21.4 miles |
| Everett | WA | 99,092 | 6 | 27.2101 | 95 | 24.5 miles |
| Tacoma | WA | 200,855 | 9 | 34.3764 | 293 | 26.1 miles |
| Fife | WA | - | 1 | 33.1119 | 4 | 26.3 miles |
| Puyallup | WA | - | 1 | 10.872 | 24 | 30.2 miles |
| South Hill | WA | 63,243 | 0 | - | 0 | 33.4 miles |
| Olympia | WA | 46,257 | 2 | 20.9056 | 57 | 47.4 miles |
| Bellingham | WA | 82,173 | 5 | 30.4386 | 275 | 77.7 miles |
| Aberdeen | WA | - | 3 | 19.6431 | 151 | 82.0 miles |