2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in District of Columbia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” 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 District of Columbia, there were 193 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 78 public relations, advertising, and applied communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

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Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication in District of Columbia

1

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgetown University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 68 masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.

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Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public relations, advertising, and applied communication degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Popular 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.