2025 Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
258Bachelor's Degrees
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #105 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for public relations, advertising, & applied communication students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 258 bachelor's degrees in public relations, advertising, & applied communication to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The public relations, advertising, and applied communication bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public relations, advertising, & applied communication students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other public relations, advertising, & applied communication students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public relations, advertising, & applied communication related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public relations, advertising, & applied communication students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Plains States Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
Rankings in Majors Related to Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
One of 10 majors within the Public Relations & Advertising area of study, Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication has other similar majors worth exploring.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).