2025 Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

Public Relations & Advertising is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #32 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 242 bachelor's degrees in public relations & advertising to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Public Relations & Advertising School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The public relations bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public relations program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 & advertising students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other public relations & advertising 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for public relations & advertising to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public relations & advertising related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Public Relations & Advertising Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Public Relations & Advertising in Tennessee

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

Top Tennessee Schools for a Bachelor's in Public Relations

1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

134 Annual Graduates

$42,173 Median Starting Salary

$54,079 Median Student Debt

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. UT Knoxville is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville.

Bachelor's recipients from the public relations & advertising program at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville make $3,788 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

More information about a bachelor’s in public relations & advertising from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

2

Lipscomb University
Nashville, TN

17 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising needs to check out Lipscomb University. Lipscomb is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Nashville.More information about a bachelor’s in public relations & advertising from Lipscomb University

3

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

45 Annual Graduates

$39,819 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising has to take a look at University of Memphis. Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program report average early career earnings of $39,819.

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4

Lee University
Cleveland, TN

18 Annual Graduates

$33,162 Median Starting Salary

$31,200 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising has to check out Lee University. Lee University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cleveland.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program state that they receive average early career wages of $33,162.

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Best Public Relations & Advertising Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	1,590
Georgia	224	611
North Carolina	213	389
Virginia	213	48
South Carolina	195	337
Kentucky	187	419
Alabama	184	390
Louisiana	171	117
Mississippi	169	34
Arkansas	167	100
West Virginia	147	11

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Rankings in Majors Related to Public Relations

One of 5 majors within the Communication & Journalism area of study, Public Relations & Advertising has other similar majors worth exploring.

Public Relations Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Public Relations	138
Advertising	85
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	12
Sports Communication	3
General Organizational Communication	2
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies	688
Journalism	263
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	25
Communication & Journalism (Other)	20
Publishing	17

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.