2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest 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 has developed its “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 3,827 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 292 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 66 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 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 Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas Tech is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 54 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech are $17,530.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Texas Tech

#2

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$32,268 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 12 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also made our “Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Christian University are $32,268, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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