2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 3,827 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 292 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 66 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public relations, advertising, and applied communication programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public relations, advertising, and applied communication program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 54 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University are $17,530, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Texas Tech University

#2

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$32,268 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #2 spot on the list. TCU is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 12 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also made our “Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at TCU are $32,268, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Texas Christian University Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

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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).
• 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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