2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication is the 170th most popular major in the country with 4,203 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Arkansas, there were 47 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. That schools that top this list have a program in public relations, advertising, and applied communication in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in Arkansas

1

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

#7 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas list. This fairly large school is located in Conway, Arkansas, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

#2 overall quality in Arkansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #2 spot on the list. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Harding Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

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University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas landed the #3 spot on the list. UARK is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *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.