2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the New England Region

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

Across the New England region, there were 157 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 45 public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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 the New England Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the New England Region

1

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Emerson Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

2

Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sacred Heart University. 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 New England Region. This fairly large school is located in Fairfield, Connecticut, and it awarded 18 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Sacred Heart University

3

Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinnipiac University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Hamden, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Full Quinnipiac 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%.

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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.