2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 4,918 people earned their degree in advertising, making the major the 149th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 119 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 119 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in advertising. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their advertising program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. BYU is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 98 bachelors’s advertising degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Advertising at BYU

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University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. U of I is a fairly large public school situated in Moscow, Idaho. It awarded 21 bachelors’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Advertising at U of I

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Advertising

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.