2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2021-2022, 1,409 people earned their degree in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication, making the major the 327th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 390 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other public relations, advertising, & applied communication program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Great Lakes Region

1

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region. DePaul University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

2

Butler University
Indianapolis, Indiana

#24 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Butler University landed the #2 spot on the list. Butler is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 13 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Butler Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.