Public Relations at Dominican University

If you are interested in studying public relations, you may want to check out the program at Dominican University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Dominican U is located in River Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 3,189. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students received a bachelor's degree in PR from Dominican U.

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

Dominican U Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

Dominican U Public Relations Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the PR progam at Dominican U compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The PR major at Dominican U is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations. 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
	58
	60
	82
	91

PR Student Demographics at Dominican U

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the PR majors at Dominican University.

Dominican U Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 PR majors earned their bachelor's degree from Dominican U. Of these graduates, 38% were men and 63% were women. The typical PR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% men. So male students are more repesented at Dominican U since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 32% more racial-ethnic minorities in its PR bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Dominican University with a bachelor's in PR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

Careers That PR Grads May Go Into

A degree in PR 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 Dominican University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	5,160	$119,330
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 HalloweenHJB under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.