2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 288th most popular major in the country with 1,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 283 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs that also have a lower cost than 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The public relations, advertising, and applied communication school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$37,841 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #1 spot on the list. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 3 associates’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

Tulane not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Tulane is $37,841 for southeast region associate degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Tulane

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (With Aid)

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.

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