Advertising at Pepperdine University

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

Pepperdine is located in Malibu, California and approximately 9,554 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 44 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from Pepperdine.

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

Pepperdine Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Pepperdine Advertising Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks advertising programs across the country. The following shows how Pepperdine 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 Pepperdine 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
	2
	8
	9
	25
	28
	28

Advertising Student Demographics at Pepperdine

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

Pepperdine Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 44 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in advertising from Pepperdine in 2021, 32% were men and 68% were women.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at Pepperdine are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Pepperdine University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	23
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

• International & Intercultural Communication
• General Organizational Communication
• Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication
• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

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 CA, the home state for Pepperdine University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Advertising and Promotions Managers	2,850	$137,630

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 Infratec~commonswiki under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.