2013 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates. Lee B. Becker • Tudor Vlad • Holly Anne Simpson. James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication. August 6, 2014.

“The vast majority of graduates of journalism and mass communications programs leave the university with at least one job offer. In 2013, 73.8% of the bachelor’s degree recipients from journalism and mass communications programs reported having at least that single offer. The average number of offers held by the graduates was 1.4. Both figures are unchanged from a year earlier. As was true in 2012, only a small percentage (3.2%) of the bachelor’s degree recipients who looked for work in 2013 reported having no job interviews in the time since they started looking for a job. More than nine in 10 of the graduates reported having had at least one in-person interview. The graduate survey goes into the field on Nov. 1 of each year, so the Oct. 31 date serves as a reference for comparing the level of employment each year. Most bachelor’s degree recipients each year report having a full-time job on that date, as Chart 3 shows. Since 1994, when the Oct. 31 measure was first used, more than half of the graduates reported full-time jobs every year but two. The highest level ofemployment was reported in 2000, when 71.1% of the bachelor’s degree recipients reported full-time work on Oct. 31. The lowest level was in 2009, when less than half of the graduates reported having full-time work at that date. The level of employment has grown from that nadir, and it grew just slightly again in 2013, but the level of change was not enough to rule out sample fluctuation as an explanation. If those graduates who looked for work alone are considered, as is the case in Chart 4, the level of change from 2012 to 2013 is clearly insignificant. In 2013, 63.8% of the bachelor’s degree recipients reported having a full-time job on Oct. 31, compared with 63.2% a year earlier.”