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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 “Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication. To top this list, a school must have a successful other public relations, advertising, and applied communication program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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 be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 23 students 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 Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 57 diplomas to qualified masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular 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.