2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,553 people earned their degree in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication, making the major the 327th most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 30 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree public relations, advertising, and applied communication students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in Massachusetts

1

Suffolk University
Boston, Massachusetts

#20 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Suffolk University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Suffolk

2

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

#14 overall quality in Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Emerson College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the New England Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

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.