2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 288th most popular major in the country with 1,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other public relations, advertising, and applied communication program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$23,968 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #1 spot on the list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Tulane also made our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Tulane is $23,968 for associate degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Tulane University of Louisiana Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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