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2023 Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

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$11,703 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

In 2020-2021, 33 degrees and certificates were awarded to public relations and advertising students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #109 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 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 North Carolina ranking.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named North Carolina State University the best value school in North Carolina for public relations and advertising students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NC State are $11,703 a year.

NC State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Public Relations & Advertising Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list.

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Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 34
Florida 152
Georgia 28
Tennessee 4
Kentucky 34
Louisiana 16
Alabama 87
South Carolina 10
Mississippi 30
Arkansas 34
West Virginia 93

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

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 values are for the top school 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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