2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations 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 a Master’s 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations. That schools that top this list have a program in public relations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Great Lakes Region

1

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State is a large school located in East Lansing, Michigan that handed out 5 masters’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

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Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a large school located in Indianapolis, Indiana that handed out 1 masters’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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

• *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.