2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in Virginia

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Virginia” 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 Virginia, there were 24 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 24 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Virginia” 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

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

1

Virginia State University
Petersburg, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia State 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 Virginia. Virginia State University is a small public school situated in Petersburg, Virginia. It awarded 2 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Virginia. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 22 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southeast Region
• 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.