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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Advertising Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 252 degrees in advertising annually.
The advertising program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Advertising rankings. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Advertising Schools in Massachusetts list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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.
Every student pursuing a degree in advertising has to look into Boston University. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 197 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in advertising needs to look into Suffolk University. Located in the city of Boston, Suffolk is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 18th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 33 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Suffolk in the most recent data year.
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It's difficult to beat Endicott College if you want to pursue a degree in advertising. Located in the large suburb of Beverly, Endicott is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 22nd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 15 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Endicott in the most recent data year.
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).
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