2024 Best Public Relations & Advertising Schools in Colorado
3Colleges in Colorado
453Public Relations Degrees Awarded
$33,190Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in public relations & advertising, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #52 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of public relations & advertising. Combined, these schools handed out 453 degrees in public relations & advertising to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Relations & Advertising School
Your choice of public relations & advertising school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Public Relations & Advertising School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Public Relations & Advertising Degree Level
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 Schools in Colorado.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Best Schools for Public Relations & Advertising in Colorado
The schools below may not offer all types of public relations degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Colorado Boulder is a great option for students pursuing a degree in public relations & advertising. CU - Boulder is a very large public university located in the city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were about 404 public relations & advertising students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available. Those public relations & advertising students who get their degree from University of Colorado Boulder earn $9,773 more than the standard public relations grad.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a great decision for students interested in a degree in public relations & advertising. Colorado State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Fort Collins. This university ranks 4th out of 33 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 13 public relations & advertising students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
Metropolitan State University of Denver is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in public relations & advertising. MSU Denver is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Denver. This university ranks 26th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 21 public relations & advertising students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the public relations program report average early career earnings of $34,748.
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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