2022 Most Popular Master's Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Plains States Region

A master's degree in public relations is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #226 out of 1095 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the most popular for public relations students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 9 master's degrees in public relations during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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One Size Does Not Fit All

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for public relations.

 

Most Popular Schools for Master’s Students to Study Public Relations in the Plains States Region

Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in public relations.

Most Well Attended Schools for PR Students Working on Their Master's

1

Webster University
Saint Louis, MO

9 Annual Master's Degrees

#1 Most Popular In MO

#1 Best Quality In MO

Webster University is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a master's degree in public relations. Webster is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Louis. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for master's degrees in public relations in Missouri. More information about a master’s in public relations from Webster University

2

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA

#1 Most Popular In IA

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in public relations needs to take a look at University of Northern Iowa. UNI is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Cedar Falls. More information about a master’s in public relations from University of Northern Iowa

 

Best Public Relations Colleges by State

Explore the most popular public relations colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	346	17
Iowa	287	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to PR

One of 10 majors within the Public Relations & Advertising area of study, Public Relations has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to PR

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Communication Management and Strategic Communications	39
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	13
General Organizational Communication	13
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	13
Health Communication	12
Advertising	11

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz. More about our data sources and methodologies.