2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 170th most popular major in the country with 4,517 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,571 public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public relations, advertising, & applied communication program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. UCF is a large public school situated in Orlando, Florida. It awarded 0 doctorate’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UCF 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
- *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.
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