2022 Best Value Public Relations Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Relations Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Public Relations & Advertising is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 20,229 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public relations and advertising graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,513 and had an average of $25,130 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 3,467 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,658 and $28,517 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 354 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public relations and advertising programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public relations and advertising program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Relations Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree public relations students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$10,523 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fashion Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Relations Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. FIT SUNY is a public institution located in New York, New York. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 342 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

FIT SUNY also made our “Best Public Relations & Advertising Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend FIT SUNY is $10,523 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Public Relations students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Public Relations & Advertising at FIT SUNY

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.

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