2023 Most Focused 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 318 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 71 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public relations, advertising, and applied communication program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major 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 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 64 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Read more about Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Texas Tech

2

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 7 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 Texas Christian University Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Report

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East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Texas Baptist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Marshall, Texas, and it awarded 2 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Texas Baptist 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.