Public Relations & Advertising at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and has a total student population of 46,287. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 100 students received their master's degree in public relations.

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

USC Public Relations & Advertising Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Public Relations

USC Public Relations & Advertising Rankings

Public Relations Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public relations majors at University of Southern California.

USC Public Relations & Advertising Master’s Program

Of the 100 public relations students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from USC, about 21% were men and 79% were women.

In the public relations master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 44% of degree recipients. That is 9% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a master's in public relations.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	25
International Students	31
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Radio, Television & Digital Communication
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Public Relations Grads May Go Into

A degree in public relations 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 University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	8,330	$141,990
Technical Writers	6,240	$91,310
Community Health Workers	6,160	$49,260

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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.