2025 Best Public Relations Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in public relations, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #87 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Public Relations Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 193 bachelor's degrees in public relations during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public relations students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other public relations students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public relations related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public relations students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Public Relations in Georgia

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in public relations.

Top Georgia Schools for a Bachelor's in PR

1

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

140 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations needs to take a look at University of Georgia. UGA is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Athens.More information about a bachelor’s in public relations from University of Georgia

2

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA

53 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Georgia Southern University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in public relations. GaSou is a very large public university located in the town of Statesboro.More information about a bachelor’s in public relations from Georgia Southern University

Best Public Relations Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Public Relations Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	380
Tennessee	460	151
North Carolina	453	73
Virginia	421	9
South Carolina	370	173
Kentucky	331	107
Alabama	320	264
Louisiana	306	2
Arkansas	294	17
Mississippi	275	15
West Virginia	223	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to PR

Public Relations is one of 10 different types of Public Relations & Advertising programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Advertising	159
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	120
General Organizational Communication	47
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	24
Technical & Scientific Communication	14
Sports Communication	13

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.