The School of Mass Communications has roughly 1,200 total undergraduate students. About half of these are Foundation students, meaning they have declared Mass Comm as their major, but they have not yet been accepted into the School. See the advertising sequence degree requirements.

The School’s approximately 600 accepted students (most taking upper-division classes) are almost evenly divided among the School’s three undergraduate academic sequences of advertising (with concentrations in creative and strategic), journalism (with concentrations in print and broadcast) and public relations.

About 92% of all VCU Mass Comm students have Virginia residency (for VCU overall , 85%). Mass Comm students also come from ten other states around the country and the District of Columbia.