Public Relations at University of Florida

If you plan to study public relations, take a look at what University of Florida has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and has a total student population of 53,372. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 195 students received a bachelor's degree in PR from UF.

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

UF Public Relations Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in PR (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UF offers distance education options for PR at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UF Public Relations Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the PR 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 PR major at UF is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations. 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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	11
	14
	44

PR Student Demographics at UF

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

UF Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

Of the 195 PR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UF, about 16% were men and 84% were women.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in PR 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 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its PR 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 PR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	47
White	110
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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

Related Majors

• Advertising

Careers That PR Grads May Go Into

A degree in PR 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
Public Relations Specialists	12,050	$60,920
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	2,050	$109,570
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.