2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value PR Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Relations is the 136th most popular major in the country with 5,347 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 690 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public relations programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public relations program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value PR Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value PR Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree pr students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$18,689 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value PR Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s PR degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

UH also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Relations Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Houston are $18,689, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Public Relations at University of Houston

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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