2022 Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Relations & Advertising is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 20,229 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public relations and advertising graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,513 and had an average of $25,130 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 99 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,800 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations and advertising. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public relations and advertising 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 and advertising 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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Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in Virginia (With Aid)

#1

Virginia State University

Petersburg, Virginia

$22,994 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$35,600 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid list. Virginia State University is a small school located in Petersburg, Virginia that handed out 2 masters’s public relations degrees in 2019-2020.

Virginia State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Public Relations & Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia State University are $22,994, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$8,349 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Public Relations Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public relations degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Relations & Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising (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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.

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