2025 Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools in Arkansas
3Colleges in Arkansas
68Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Degrees Awarded
A degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #170 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Arkansas to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of public relations, advertising, & applied communication. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 degrees in public relations, advertising, & applied communication annually.
Choosing a Great Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication School
The public relations, advertising, and applied communication program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication rankings. We derive our Best Overall Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools in Arkansas list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in Arkansas
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Arkansas Schools in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
University of Arkansas is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication. UARK is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Fayetteville. A Best Colleges rank of #239 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UARK is a great university overall.
There were about 2 public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at UARK in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in public relations, advertising, & applied communication needs to check out Harding University. Harding is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Searcy. This university ranks 3rd out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Arkansas.
There were approximately 25 public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at Harding in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in public relations, advertising, & applied communication needs to take a look at University of Central Arkansas. Located in the city of Conway, UCA is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 11th out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arkansas.
There were approximately 30 public relations, advertising, & applied communication students who graduated with this degree at UCA in the most recent data year.
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).
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