2022 Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Public Relations is the 136th most popular major in the country with 5,347 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Arkansas, there were 17 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public relations programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public relations program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Public Relations in Arkansas (With Aid)

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

$48,761 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value PR Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid list. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s PR degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Harding not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Relations Schools in Arkansas” list. The estimated yearly cost for Harding is $19,375 for Arkansas PR students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Relations at Harding

• Best Value Colleges for Public Relations in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Public Relations (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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