Public Relations & Advertising is a major offered under the communication and journalism program of study at DePaul University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in public relations, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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BA in Communication - Public Relations
Prepare to develop your skills in building mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their public audiences.
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at DePaul was ranked #86 on College Factual's Best Schools for public relations list. It is also ranked #7 in Illinois.
Here are some of the other rankings for DePaul.
Part-time undergraduates at DePaul paid an average of $655 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $40,551 | $40,551 |
Fees | $651 | $651 |
Books and Supplies | $1,104 | $1,104 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,093 | $15,093 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,394 | $2,394 |
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One factor in determining the overall cost in a degree is to consider how much in student loans you’ll have to take out. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at DePaul in Public Relations walked away with an average of $25,000 in student debt. That is 7% higher than the national average of $23,348.
The median early career salary of public relations students who receive their bachelor’s degree from DePaul is $40,684 per year. That is 17% higher than the national average of $34,735.
Online degrees for the DePaul public relations bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the DePaul Online Learning page.
Women made up around 75.1% of the public relations students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 72.2%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in public relations at DePaul in 2019-2020, 21.2% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 29%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 9 |
Black or African American | 6 |
Hispanic or Latino | 22 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 141 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 8 |
Public Relations & Advertising students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Organizational Communication | 12 |
Sports Communication | 6 |
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication | 171 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to public relations and advertising.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Communication & Media Studies | 168 |
Journalism | 42 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.