2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region

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

Across the New England region, there were 165 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 37 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the New England Region

1

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 20% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emerson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Emerson

2

Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sacred Heart University landed the #2 spot on the list. Sacred Heart University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Connecticut. It awarded 20 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Sacred Heart University

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Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinnipiac University landed the #3 spot on the list. Quinnipiac University is located in Hamden, Connecticut and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 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 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

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• 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.