Public Relations at Oral Roberts University

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

ORU is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has a total student population of 4,317. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 students received a bachelor's degree in PR from ORU.

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.

ORU Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

ORU Public Relations Rankings

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

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 ORU 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
	32
	36
	76
	77
	85
	108

PR Student Demographics at ORU

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

ORU Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 PR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from ORU, about 27% were men and 73% were women. The typical PR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% men. So male students are more repesented at ORU since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Oral Roberts University with a bachelor's in PR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	2
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication
• General Organizational Communication

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 OK, the home state for Oral Roberts University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
Public Relations Specialists	1,880	$51,060
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	400	$94,870
Communications Professors	330	$50,700
Advertising and Promotions Managers	110	$89,600

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 Dustin M. Ramsey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.