2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 5,216 people earned their degree in public relations, making the major the 138th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 860 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public relations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Great Lakes Region

1

Vincennes University
Vincennes, Indiana

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vincennes University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Vincennes, Indiana, and it awarded 7 associates’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public Relations at Vincennes University

2

Franklin University
Columbus, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Franklin University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s PR degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Relations at Franklin University

3

Macomb Community College
Warren, Michigan

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Macomb Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Warren, Michigan, and it awarded 0 associates’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Macomb Community College Public Relations Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations

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.