2023 Best Colleges for Advertising

SUMMARY

Majoring in Advertising is a valuable choice and commonly a mandatory first step for scholars seeking to pursue a career as an advertising account executive, an advertisement and sales consultant, or a digital advertising specialist. Interestingly, advertising is somewhat popular ranking as the 85th most popular degree. Last year alone, there were 4,801 advertising graduates. In-state tuition for advertising at private schools is, on average, 3.3 times more pricey than their public counterparts.

With only 100 universities having programs for advertising you could have a more finite list of the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you're hoping to surround yourself with other advertising undergrads, consider looking at institutions in Michigan which have the most undergrads admitted to advertising annually. More generally, the top region to pursue advertising is in the Great Lakes region with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Grand Valley State University, and Michigan State University best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection for the best conference to study advertising is the Big Ten Conference with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign representing the conference. Based on our list on the best colleges, our belief is that the best college for advertising is University of Miami.

The objectively 'best' school might not actually be the best school for every student. There might be a bunch more factors to weigh when deciding on school. External stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food could definitely modify your feelings on which university to attend. Here at authority.org, we've weighed the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you want to know which advertising college boasts the best campus, the winner is Michigan State University. If you are very interested in which college is home to the finest campus, then we have an entire list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through government databases, student reviews, professor reviews, and more in order to compare all U.S. majors in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can find our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand, from that list, our choice for the college with the best student life for advertising is University of Florida. Curious why? Keep scrolling to learn more about our top choices. Some of our conclusions will probably surprise you.

If expense is a major factor in your decisions, you might be cautious about Pepperdine University. Pepperdine University&nbspis our most expensive college for advertising, at least for out of state enrollment. That being said, we have an entire page for the most expensive&nbspcolleges that might put the price tag at Pepperdine University&nbspinto perspective. For more context, you could care to know that advertising is the 222nd most expensive major in the United States, with an average bill of $29,100. On a broader scale, the most costly state for advertising in the nation is Wisconsin demonstrated by a tuition of $43,350 at the main school in the state Marquette University. To zoom out even further, the most costly region for advertising is the Far West region which is best demonstrated with Pepperdine University with a cost of $55,640, University of San Francisco with a cost of $49,740, and University of Oregon with a cost of $34,335.

Our cheapest region for advertising is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by University of Idaho with a cost of $25,418 and Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790. In better news, the most affordable university for advertising is Brigham Young University-Provo. Our entire list of the most affordable universities can be explored here.

In-state learners can expect to pay in the neighborhood of $10,600 for a degree in advertising. That cost grows substantially to a median of $23,500 for an out-of-state public-school student. On that note, our selection for the university representing the best value for advertising: Southern Methodist University. Here you can find our comprehensive list on the schools we believe to be the best value&nbspin general. Bear in mind, this section is predicated on out-of-state tuition costs. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for advertising majors differ a lot, but two years after finishing the degree graduates will typically make around $52,000. There is much variation in salary; highest paid earners can experience pay up to $102,000. Even straight out of college, the lowest earning opportunities within the advertising field earn $26,100, which could be worse. The highest earning graduates for advertising attended Marquette University&nbspand if you are looking for colleges with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The prevailing diversity of advertising ranks subpar, being in the 49th percentile of all majors. The university with the highest composite diversity for advertising is University of Miami&nbspand here you can find our general list for the universities which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Advertising major only ranks in the 66th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 46th percentile. White collegians make up the largest share, 63%, of those studying advertising. Additionally, 68% of undergrads pursuing an advertising degree are women.

The median ranking of advertising's professors is 4.1 stars, a ranking which is 2% greater than the average across all majors; this is a good ranking. If you want the most popular advertising professor in the country, look no further than Maureen Neuringer at CUNY New York City College of Technology. It might be surprising, but the best ranked advertising professors from student rankings come from Temple University. As we consider data other than simply rankings we find that the university possessing comprehensively the best instructors for advertising is University of Miami. One will find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology for the best overall professors here, as well as some of the finest instructors nationwide.

Finally, the hardest university to get into for advertising is University of Miami. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we do have a general page of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, here at Authority we hope you understand that considering higher education through a lens only shaped by superlatives can cause problems. We hope you explore our other pages on individual universities and explore a couple of our helpful background pages on useful things to think about as you continue your college search.