Advertising at Iowa State University

If you plan to study advertising, take a look at what Iowa State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and has a total student population of 34,992. Of the 1,808 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in 2019, 60 of them were advertising majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Advertising section at the bottom of this page.

Iowa State Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Iowa State Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at Iowa State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The advertising major at Iowa State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Advertising. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Advertising Schools	13
Most Popular Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	24
Most Focused Advertising Schools	58

Advertising Student Demographics at Iowa State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the advertising majors at Iowa State University.

Iowa State Advertising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 60 advertising majors earned their bachelor's degree from Iowa State. Of these graduates, 38% were men and 62% were women. The typical advertising bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Iowa State since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at Iowa State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	44
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Iowa State also has a doctoral program available in advertising. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations

Careers That Advertising Grads May Go Into

A degree in advertising can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Communications Professors	480	$88,340
Advertising and Promotions Managers	200	$113,030

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jamo2008 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.