2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 363 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Great Lakes Region

1

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 23 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

Butler University
Indianapolis, Indiana

#24 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Butler University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Butler is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 57 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Butler Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

• Most Focused Master’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.