2025 Best Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in advertising, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #89 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Indiana to determine which ones were the best for advertising students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 bachelor's degrees in advertising during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on advertising students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other advertising students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized advertising related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for advertising students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Advertising Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Advertising in Indiana

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in advertising.

Top Indiana Schools for a Bachelor's in Advertising

1

Ball State University
Muncie, IN

28 Annual Graduates

Ball State University is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in advertising. Located in the city of Muncie, Ball State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in advertising from Ball State University

2

University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN

14 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Southern Indiana if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in advertising. USI is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Evansville.More information about a bachelor’s in advertising from University of Southern Indiana

Best Advertising Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Advertising Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	657
Ohio	612	46
Illinois	558	263
Wisconsin	435	56

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Rankings in Majors Related to Advertising

One of 10 majors within the Public Relations & Advertising area of study, Advertising has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Advertising

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	56
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	55
Sports Communication	34
Public Relations	20
General Organizational Communication	5
Technical & Scientific Communication	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz. More about our data sources and methodologies.