If you pursue a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #32 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 390 bachelor's degrees in public relations & advertising during the 2020-2021 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 full 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
The public relations school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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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.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising needs to look into The University of Alabama. UA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tuscaloosa.
Bachelor's recipients from the public relations & advertising program at The University of Alabama get $2,211 more than the standard college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Auburn University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the public relations program earn an average of $34,482 in their early career salary.
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).
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