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 journalism 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.

Journalism has about 400 total students, with about 200 upper-division students. Of those, close to 60% are in the broadcast concentration, with around 40% in the print concentration. About five percent of journalism students are “double majoring.” Many students choose to minor in a field that will provide a professional advantage, such as political science, business or history.