Advertising at University of Georgia

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

UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and approximately 39,147 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 178 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from UGA.

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

UGA Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

UGA Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at UGA 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 UGA 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
	7
	29

Advertising Student Demographics at UGA

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

UGA Advertising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 178 advertising students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UGA, about 22% were men and 78% were women.

About 76% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at UGA are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	135
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

UGA 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 GA, the home state for University of Georgia.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Advertising and Promotions Managers	610	$146,390
Communications Professors	400	$77,820

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 Pruddle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.