2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s
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Advertising is the 149th most popular major in the country with 4,918 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 260 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 16 colleges that offered a degree in advertising. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular advertising programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s”.
Top 16 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 77 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, 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.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 31 diplomas to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
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Out of the 16 schools in the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, School of Visual Arts landed the #3 spot on the list. School of Visual Arts is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 27 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full School of Visual Arts Advertising Report
Out of the 16 schools in the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. 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%.
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Out of the 16 schools in the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #5 spot on the list. Eugene, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Syracuse University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. Syracuse, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Temple University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 15 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Full Temple Advertising Report
With a ranking of #8, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Southern Methodist University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Webster University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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St John’s University - New York did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #11. Queens, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
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Michigan State University came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. Michigan State University is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s advertising degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of South Florida - Main Campus came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. USF Tampa is a large public school situated in Tampa, Florida. It awarded 5 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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%.
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With a ranking of #14, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s list. Sagrado is a small school located in Santurce, that handed out 3 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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University of Florida came in at #15 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Advertising Major for a Master’s ranking. 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.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Advertising at UF
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