Advertising at University of Florida

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

UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and has a total student population of 53,372. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 196 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from UF.

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

UF Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

Online Classes Are Available at UF

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UF does offer online education options in advertising for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UF Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at UF 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 UF 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
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	1
	2
	5
	6
	15
	18

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in advertising from UF. This is the #15 most popular school for advertising master’s degree candidates in the country.

Advertising Student Demographics at UF

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

UF Advertising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 196 advertising majors earned their bachelor's degree from UF. Of these graduates, 33% were men and 67% were women.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at UF are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 University of Florida with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	53
White	106
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

UF 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 FL, the home state for University of Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Communications Professors	1,320	$77,290
Advertising and Promotions Managers	1,040	$98,480

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 DouglasGreen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.