2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Advertising is the 149th most popular major in the country with 4,918 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,149 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in advertising. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in advertising.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree advertising students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southeast Region

1

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Alabama. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it awarded 23 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UA Advertising Report

2

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region. Tampa, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Advertising at USF Tampa

3

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southeast Region. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 196 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Advertising at UF

• Most Focused Master’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.