2024 Best Public Relations Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
139PR Degrees Awarded
Ranked #138 in popularity, public relations is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Public Relations Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 139 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. We derive our Best Overall Public Relations School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Relations Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the pr degrees they offer, see the list below.
Temple University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public relations. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #147 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Temple is a great university overall.
There were approximately 92 public relations students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in public relations needs to check out Elizabethtown College. Located in the suburb of Elizabethtown, Etown is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 29th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 1 public relations students who graduated with this degree at Etown in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in public relations needs to look into York College of Pennsylvania. YCP is a small private not-for-profit college located in the medium-sized suburb of York. This college ranks 51st out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 2 public relations students who graduated with this degree at YCP in the most recent data year.
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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