Advertising at Texas State University

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

Texas State is located in San Marcos, Texas and has a total student population of 37,812. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 133 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from Texas State.

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

Texas State Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Texas State Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at Texas State 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 Texas 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
	9
	10
	23
	38
	43

Advertising Student Demographics at Texas State

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

Texas State Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 133 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Advertising from Texas State in 2020-2021, 41% were men and 59% were women. The typical advertising bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at Texas State since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at Texas State are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% 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 Texas State University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	43
White	72
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Texas 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 TX, the home state for Texas State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900
Advertising and Promotions Managers	1,590	$98,960

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.