2025 Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools in the Southeast Region
6Colleges in the Southeast Region
274Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #327 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 274 degrees in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication annually.
Choosing a Great Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication School
Your choice of other public relations, advertising, & applied communication school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
86Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Degrees Awarded
It's difficult to beat Arkansas State University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a degree in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication. Located in the city of Jonesboro, A-State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #753 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means A-State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 86 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at A-State in the most recent data year.
51Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Degrees Awarded
Every student pursuing a degree in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication has to check out University of North Carolina at Wilmington. UNCW is a large public university located in the midsize city of Wilmington. A Best Colleges rank of #415 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNCW is a great university overall.
There were roughly 51 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at UNCW in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Liberty University if you want to pursue a degree in other public relations, advertising, & applied communication. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg. A Best Colleges rank of #265 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Liberty University is a great university overall.
There were approximately 14 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Dalton, DSC is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 59th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were roughly 8 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at DSC in the most recent data year.
Morehead State University is a medium-sized public university located in the remote town of Morehead. This university ranks 27th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 24 other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at Morehead State University in the most recent year we have data available.
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Related Rankings by Major
One of 10 majors within the Public Relations & Advertising area of study, Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication has other similar majors worth exploring.
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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