Advertising is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #149 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Advertising Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 335 degrees in advertising annually.
Your choice of advertising school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for advertising schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Advertising Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the advertising degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Syracuse University if you want to pursue a degree in advertising. Syracuse is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Syracuse. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.
There were about 131 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in advertising needs to look into Pace University - New York. Located in the large city of New York, Pace University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 34th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 87 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Pace University in the most recent year we have data available.
Learn creative problem-solving skills and expand your knowledge in consumer behavior with an online associate in marketing degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
St John's University - New York is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in advertising. STJ is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Queens. This university ranks 31st out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 25 advertising students who graduated with this degree at STJ in the most recent year we have data available.
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.