Advertising at Pepperdine University

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

Pepperdine is located in Malibu, California and approximately 7,961 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 34 advertising majors received their bachelor's degree from Pepperdine.

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

Pepperdine Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Pepperdine Advertising Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks advertising programs across the country. The following shows how Pepperdine performed in these rankings.

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 Pepperdine 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	10
Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
Most Focused Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	25
Most Focused Advertising Schools	30
Most Popular Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	36
Most Popular Advertising Schools	39

Advertising Student Demographics at Pepperdine

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

Pepperdine Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 34 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Advertising from Pepperdine in 2018-2019, 24% were men and 76% were women.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at Pepperdine are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its advertising bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	20
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• General Organizational Communication
• International & Intercultural Communication
• Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication
• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

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 CA, the home state for Pepperdine University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Advertising and Promotions Managers	2,850	$137,630

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 Infratec~commonswiki under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.