Advertising at San Jose State University

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

San Jose State is located in San Jose, California and approximately 36,208 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,988 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University in 2021, 42 of them were advertising majors.

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

San Jose State Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

San Jose State Advertising Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The advertising major at San Jose State 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
	1
	6
	6
	12
	12
	29
	52

Advertising Student Demographics at San Jose State

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

San Jose State Advertising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 42 advertising majors earned their bachelor's degree from San Jose State. Of these graduates, 48% were men and 52% were women. The typical advertising bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at San Jose State since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% 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 San Jose State University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	6
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

San Jose State 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 CA, the home state for San Jose State 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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.