Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Ithaca College

If you plan to study public relations, advertising, and applied communication, take a look at what Ithaca College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Ithaca is located in Ithaca, New York and has a total student population of 6,517. Of the 350 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 2019, 103 of them were public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication section at the bottom of this page.

Ithaca Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication

Ithaca Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the public relations, advertising, and applied communication progam at Ithaca 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 public relations, advertising, and applied communication major at Ithaca is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication. 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
Most Focused Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	3
Most Focused Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	7
Most Popular Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	8
Most Popular Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	9

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Student Demographics at Ithaca

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors at Ithaca College.

Ithaca Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Program

Of the 103 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in public relations, advertising, and applied communication from Ithaca in 2019, 36% were men and 64% were women. The typical public relations, advertising, and applied communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% men. So male students are more repesented at Ithaca since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication at Ithaca 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 Ithaca College with a bachelor's in public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	83
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Ithaca also has a doctoral program available in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication
• Sports Communication
• General Organizational Communication

Careers That Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Ithaca College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists	24,510	$74,000
Advertising and Promotions Managers	6,590	$174,870
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	6,190	$167,330
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470

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 Mr Senseless under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.