Public Relations at Texas Tech University

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

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and approximately 38,209 students attend the school each year. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 165 students received a bachelor's degree in PR from Texas Tech.

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

Texas Tech Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

Texas Tech Public Relations Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the PR progam at Texas Tech compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The PR major at Texas Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations. 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 Popular Public Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Best Public Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools	26
Most Focused Public Relations Schools	29

PR Student Demographics at Texas Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the PR majors at Texas Tech University.

Texas Tech Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

The PR program at Texas Tech awarded 165 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 27% of these degrees went to men with the other 73% going to women. The typical PR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% men. So male students are more repesented at Texas Tech since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in PR at Texas Tech are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its PR bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	33
White	117
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication
• Advertising

Careers That PR Grads May Go Into

A degree in PR can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Texas Tech University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Public Relations Specialists	28,360	$60,600
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	4,680	$125,490
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900
Advertising and Promotions Managers	1,590	$98,960

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 Johan Hendrikse under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.