2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in the Rocky Mountains Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Relations & Advertising is the 52nd most popular major in the country with 21,099 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public relations and advertising graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,287 and had an average of $23,973 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 796 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,301 and $20,730 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public relations and advertising. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public relations and advertising program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Casper College
Casper, Wyoming

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Casper College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Casper, Wyoming, this small public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s public relations students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Relations & Advertising at Casper College

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North Idaho College
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Idaho College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, this small public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s public relations students in 2020-2021.

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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.