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2024 Best Advertising Schools in New York

5 Colleges in New York
320 Advertising Degrees Awarded
Advertising is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #149 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for advertising students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 320 degrees in advertising during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Advertising School

Best Advertising Schools in New York Your choice of advertising school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for advertising schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.

You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.

Pick Your Advertising Degree Level

Bachelor's Degrees in Advertising
Master's Degrees in Advertising

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Advertising Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.


 

Best Schools for Advertising in New York

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the advertising degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top New York Schools in Advertising

1
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
1st Most Popular In NY
123 Advertising Degrees Awarded

It is hard to beat Syracuse University if you wish to pursue a degree in advertising. Syracuse is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Syracuse. A Best Colleges rank of #132 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.

There were about 123 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent data year.

More information about a degree in advertising from Syracuse University

2
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
4th Most Popular In NY

It's hard to beat School of Visual Arts if you want to pursue a degree in advertising. Located in the large city of New York, SVA is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

There were approximately 27 advertising students who graduated with this degree at SVA in the most recent data year.

More information about a degree in advertising from School of Visual Arts

3
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
3rd Most Popular In NY
36 Advertising Degrees Awarded

St John's University - New York is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in advertising. STJ is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Queens. This university ranks 41st out of 142 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.

There were about 36 advertising students who graduated with this degree at STJ in the most recent data year.

More information about a degree in advertising from St John’s University - New York

4
Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
2nd Most Popular In NY
88 Advertising Degrees Awarded

Every student pursuing a degree in advertising has to check out Pace University - New York. Located in the city of New York, Pace University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 47th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.

There were approximately 88 advertising students who graduated with this degree at Pace University in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a degree in advertising from Pace University - New York

5
Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
5th Most Popular In NY

RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Rochester. A Best Colleges rank of #285 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means RIT is a great school overall.

There were about 11 advertising students who graduated with this degree at RIT in the most recent data year.

More information about a degree in advertising from Rochester Institute of Technology

Best Advertising Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Advertising Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Colleges Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 978 217
New Jersey 614 93

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One of 10 majors within the Public Relations & Advertising area of study, Advertising has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Communication Management and Strategic Communications 613
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication 355
Public Relations 317
Sports Communication 54
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication 49
General Organizational Communication 37
International & Intercultural Communication 27
Health Communication 15
Technical & Scientific Communication 7

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