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 15 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,481 bachelor's degrees in public relations & advertising to qualified students.
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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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
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
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 the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It's hard to beat Emerson College if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Emerson is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program state that they receive average early career earnings of $28,606.
It is difficult to beat Quinnipiac University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising. Quinnipiac is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hamden.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program state that they receive average early career income of $43,591.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public relations & advertising has to check out University of Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Kingston.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public relations program state that they receive average early career income of $42,181.
SNHU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize suburb of Manchester.
Those public relations & advertising students who get their bachelor's degree from Southern New Hampshire University earn $4,043 more than the standard public relations grad.
Located in the city of Boston, Suffolk is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.
Public Relations & Advertising bachelor's degree recipients from Suffolk University get an earnings boost of about $2,386 above the typical earnings of public relations & advertising majors.
Located in the suburb of Beverly, Endicott is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the public relations & advertising program at Endicott College make $5,426 more than the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).