2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 170th most popular major in the country with 4,517 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across District of Columbia, there were 161 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 80 public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication. That schools that top this list have a program in public relations, advertising, & applied communication in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in District of Columbia

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Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 74 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Georgetown 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.