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2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$33,381 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

In 2020-2021, 366 degrees and certificates were awarded to public relations and advertising students who went to a New York college or university. This makes it the #64 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in New York ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New York to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for public relations students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for public relations majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Public Relations & Advertising

#1

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

Our analysis found Stony Brook University to be the best value school for public relations and advertising students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in New York. Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public school with a fairly large student population.

SUNY Stony Brook graduate students pay an average of $13,838 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

SUNY Stony Brook excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Columbia University in the City of New York is a great value for public relations and advertising students working on their graduate certificate. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Columbia are $52,924 a year.

Columbia did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list.

Read full report on Public Relations & Advertising at Columbia University in the City of New York

Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

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

Public Relations & Advertising is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

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 2 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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