2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in Alabama

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Alabama, there were 477 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,693 and $24,125 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 public relations and advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,476 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations & Advertising in Alabama

1

Troy University
Troy, Alabama

#12 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Troy University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama list. Troy University is a fairly large school located in Troy, Alabama that handed out 62 masters’s public relations degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public Relations & Advertising at TROY

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The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

#2 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Alabama. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Relations Major in Alabama list. UA is a public institution located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 The University of Alabama

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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.