Advertising at Rochester Institute of Technology

If you plan to study advertising, take a look at what Rochester Institute of Technology has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

RIT is located in Rochester, New York and approximately 16,158 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from RIT.

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

RIT Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

RIT Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at RIT compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 RIT 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
	44
	49
	58

Advertising Student Demographics at RIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the advertising majors at Rochester Institute of Technology.

RIT Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 advertising students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from RIT, about 18% were men and 82% were women.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at RIT are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

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 NY, the home state for Rochester Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Advertising and Promotions Managers	6,590	$174,870
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470

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 Matthew D. Wilson (LtPowers) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.