2024 Best Public Relations Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
231PR Degrees Awarded
Public Relations is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #138 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Public Relations Schools in District of Columbia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 231 degrees in public relations to qualified students.
Your choice of public relations school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for public relations schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Relations Schools in District of Columbia list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Relations in District of Columbia
The schools below may not offer all types of pr degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Georgetown University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in public relations. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were roughly 89 public relations students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent data year.
George Washington University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in public relations. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 2nd out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 42 public relations students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year.
American University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in public relations. The American University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 3rd out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were approximately 100 public relations students who graduated with this degree at The American University in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of public relations school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for public relations schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
