2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in West Virginia

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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 West Virginia, there were 114 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,874 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in public relations and advertising. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations and advertising.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia bachelor’s degree public relations students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in West Virginia

1

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia

#6 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia list. This small school is located in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s public relations degrees in 2020-2021.

Full West Virginia Wesleyan Public Relations & Advertising Report

2

Alderson Broaddus University
Philippi, West Virginia

#8 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alderson Broaddus University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia list. Alderson Broaddus University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philippi, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Alderson Broaddus University Public Relations & Advertising Report

3

Wheeling University
Wheeling, West Virginia

#4 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wheeling University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia. Wheeling University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wheeling, West Virginia. It awarded 1 bachelors’s public relations degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Wheeling University Public Relations & Advertising Report

4

University of Charleston
Charleston, West Virginia

#3 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Charleston. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public relations students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Relations & Advertising at University of Charleston

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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.