2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,802 people earned their degree in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 303 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 273 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other public relations, advertising, and applied communication program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (Income $48-$75k) in Illinois

#1

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$28,075 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k. DePaul is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 171 bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

DePaul also made our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend DePaul is $28,075 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$32,259 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #2 spot on the list. Loyola University Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 102 bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The estimated yearly cost for Loyola University Chicago is $32,259 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Loyola University Chicago Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.

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