2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 327th most popular major in the country with 1,409 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 274 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 166 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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 Southeast Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region

1

Arkansas State University - Main Campus
Jonesboro, Arkansas

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. 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 Southeast Region. A-State is a public institution located in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 40 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full A-State Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

2

University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Wilmington, North Carolina, and it awarded 51 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

3

Virginia State University
Petersburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia State is a small school located in Petersburg, Virginia that handed out 8 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Virginia State University

4

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #4 spot on the list. Liberty University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Liberty University

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.