Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus

If you are interested in studying public relations, advertising, and applied communication, you may want to check out the program at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Penn State World Campus is located in University Park, Pennsylvania and approximately 14,458 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 13 public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors received their bachelor's degree from Penn State World Campus.

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.

Penn State World Campus Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Penn State World Campus

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Penn State World Campus offers distance education options for public relations, advertising, and applied communication at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Penn State World Campus Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the public relations, advertising, and applied communication progam at Penn State World Campus compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The public relations, advertising, and applied communication major at Penn State World Campus 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
Best Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	3
Most Popular Online Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	8
Most Popular Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	50
Most Focused Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Schools	92

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Student Demographics at Penn State World Campus

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus.

Penn State World Campus Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Program

In the 2018-2019 academic year, 13 students earned a bachelor's degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication from Penn State World Campus. About 62% of these graduates were women and the other 38% were men. 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 Penn State World Campus since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication at Penn State World Campus 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 Pennsylvania State University - World Campus with a bachelor's in public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Penn State World Campus 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

• General Organizational Communication
• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied 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 PA, the home state for Pennsylvania State University - World Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Public Relations Specialists	8,390	$61,510
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	1,620	$123,600
Communications Professors	1,280	$76,720
Advertising and Promotions Managers	500	$143,620

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.