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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 486 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 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region

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 Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball 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 the Great Lakes Region. Ball State University is located in Muncie, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Ball State University

2

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 Michigan State University Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for 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.