2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in Arkansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s in Arkansas” 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 Arkansas, there were 17 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public relations program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value PR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value PR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in Arkansas

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value PR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas. Harding is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 17 bachelors’s PR degrees in 2019-2020.

Harding did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. The yearly cost to attend Harding is $19,375 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree PR students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low 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%.

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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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