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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 611 bachelor's degrees in public relations & advertising during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Public Relations & Advertising School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of public relations & advertising for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public relations & advertising students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of public relations & advertising students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt public relations & advertising students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 schools for public relations & advertising students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia list to help you 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.
University of Georgia is a great choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the public relations program earn an average of $40,201 for their early career.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising has to take a look at Kennesaw State University. Located in the suburb of Kennesaw, KSU Georgia 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 $37,906.
Georgia Southern University is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Located in the town of Statesboro, GaSou is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program report average early career earnings of $38,327.
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).