2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in Florida

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 21,099 people earned their degree in public relations and advertising, making the major the 52nd most popular in the United States. 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 Florida, there were 1,845 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,069 and $20,784 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,132 and $22,101 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Florida” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public relations and advertising. That schools that top this list have a program in public relations and advertising in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Florida

The colleges and universities below are the best for florida associate degree public relations students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in Florida

1

Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Full Sail University landed the #1 spot on the list. Full Sail University is located in Winter Park, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s public relations degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Public Relations & Advertising at Full Sail University

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Lynn University
Boca Raton, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lynn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Florida list. Lynn University is a small school located in Boca Raton, Florida that handed out 10 associates’s public relations degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%.

Read more about Public Relations & Advertising at Lynn University

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused 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

• *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.