2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other public relations, advertising, and applied communication program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication (Income $30-$48k)

#1

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$24,632 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 3 associates’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tulane, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tulane is $24,632 for Associate Degree Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication students whose families make $30-$48k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Tulane 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.

Credits

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