Public Relations at The University of Texas at Austin

If you are interested in studying public relations, you may want to check out the program at The University of Texas at Austin. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and has a total student population of 51,832. Of the 2,164 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019, 163 of them were public relations majors.

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.

UT Austin Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

UT Austin Public Relations Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the PR progam at UT Austin 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 PR major at UT Austin 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
Best Public Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Best Public Relations Schools	7
Most Popular Public Relations Schools	8
Most Focused Public Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools	66
Most Focused Public Relations Schools	71

PR Student Demographics at UT Austin

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

UT Austin Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

Of the 163 PR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2018-2019 from UT Austin, about 13% were men and 87% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% 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 The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in PR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	39
White	81
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• General Organizational 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 The University of Texas at Austin.

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 Reid Sullivan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.