Advertising at Columbia College Chicago

What traits are you looking for in a advertising school? To help you decide if Columbia College Chicago is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's advertising program.

Columbia is located in Chicago, Illinois and has a total student population of 6,769. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from Columbia.

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

Columbia Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Columbia Advertising Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks advertising programs across the country. The following shows how Columbia performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The advertising major at Columbia is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Advertising. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
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	56

Advertising Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the advertising majors at Columbia College Chicago.

Columbia Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 13 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Advertising from Columbia in 2020-2021, 54% were men and 46% were women. The typical advertising bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at Columbia since its program graduates 19% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its advertising bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Columbia also has a doctoral program available in advertising. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations

Careers That Advertising Grads May Go Into

A degree in advertising can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Columbia College Chicago.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.