2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 4,517 people earned their degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication, making the major the 170th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 435 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 53 public relations, advertising, & applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations, advertising, & applied communication. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations, advertising, & applied communication.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest 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 Southwest Region

1

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 44 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Texas Tech University Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

2

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian 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 Southwest Region. Texas Christian University is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at TCU

3

East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Texas Baptist University landed the #3 spot on the list. Marshall, Texas 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 2 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at East Texas Baptist 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.