Ranked #32 in popularity, public relations & advertising is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Oregon to determine which ones were the best for public relations & advertising students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 621 bachelor's degrees in public relations & advertising to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Relations & Advertising School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The public relations bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public relations program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public relations & advertising students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other public relations & advertising students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for public relations & advertising to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public relations & advertising related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public relations & advertising students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Public Relations & Advertising Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Oregon ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Featured Public Relations & Advertising Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
University of Oregon is a great option for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Located in the city of Eugene, UO is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program state that they receive average early career wages of $36,861.
University of Portland is a good decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. University of Portland is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Portland.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program report average early career wages of $32,196.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising has to check out George Fox University. GFU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Newberg.
Public Relations & Advertising bachelor's degree recipients from George Fox University get an earnings boost of about $2,573 over the typical earnings of public relations & advertising graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).