2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 327th most popular major in the country with 1,553 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 216 other public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other public relations, advertising, and applied communication. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the other public relations, advertising, and applied communication program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying public relations, advertising, and applied communication.
Top 3 Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s. Liberty University is a large school located in Lynchburg, Virginia that handed out 22 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.
Liberty University also made our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 93,349 students enrolled at Liberty University, 13,282 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 8,897 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,888. On top of their other funding sources, 386 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Liberty University Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s list. A-State is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at A-State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 425 of the 13,106 students enrolled at A-State were GI Bill® students, of which 180 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,131. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. A-State does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full A-State Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication for a Master’s list. Wilmington, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
UNCW did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 17,915 students enrolled at UNCW, 1,169 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 659 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,129. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UNCW does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of North Carolina at Wilmington]](/colleges/university-of-north-carolina-at-wilmington/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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