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2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$26,209 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate School for You

Public Relations & Advertising is the #71 most popular major in the country with 2,828 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 7 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for public relations students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Public Relations & Advertising

Our analysis found University of Maryland Global Campus to be the best value school for public relations and advertising students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public school with a very large student population.

UMGC graduate students pay an average of $12,132 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Villanova University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Villanova.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Villanova are $21,199 per year.

Villanova did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Clarion University of Pennsylvania helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value public relations and advertising schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Clarion University is a small public school located in the remote town of Clarion.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clarion University are $13,862 per year.

Full Public Relations & Advertising at Clarion University of Pennsylvania Report

#4

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Temple University is a great value for public relations and advertising students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Temple are $24,812 per year.

Full Public Relations & Advertising at Temple University Report

#5

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Stony Brook University is a great value for public relations and advertising students working on their graduate certificate. SUNY Stony Brook is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Stony Brook.

SUNY Stony Brook graduate students pay an average of $25,628 in tuition and fees each year.

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George Washington University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

GWU graduate students pay an average of $32,904 in tuition and fees each year.

GWU also claimed a spot on our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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Columbia University in the City of New York ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Columbia graduate students pay an average of $52,924 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Columbia also is in the top 15% of our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.

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Best Public Relations & Advertising Colleges by State

Explore the best public relations and advertising schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 366
Pennsylvania 108
Maryland 10
New Jersey 59
District of Columbia 266
Delaware 1

One of 5 majors within the area of study, public relations and advertising has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Public Relations

Related Major Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies 5,059
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 2,562
Journalism 1,238
Communication & Journalism (Other) 341
Publishing 214

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 7 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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