2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 127 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public relations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree pr students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Montana State University - Billings
Billings, Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University - Billings landed the #1 spot on the list. Montana State University - Billings is located in Billings, Montana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s PR degrees to qualified students.

Full Montana State University - Billings Public Relations Report

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University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 0 masters’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Relations at DU

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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.