Public Relations at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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

UL Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and has a total student population of 16,450. Of the 449 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2021, 2 of them were public relations majors.

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.

UL Lafayette Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

UL Lafayette Public Relations Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the PR progam at UL Lafayette compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The PR major at UL Lafayette 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
	81
	91
	93
	97
	110
	128
	130
	152

PR Student Demographics at UL Lafayette

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

UL Lafayette Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students earned a bachelor's degree in PR from UL Lafayette. About 0% of these graduates were women and the other 100% were men. The typical PR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% men. So male students are more repesented at UL Lafayette since its program graduates 79% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% 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 Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor's in PR.

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

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

Related Majors

• Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

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 LA, the home state for University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Public Relations Specialists	1,350	$53,390
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	300	$91,740
Advertising and Promotions Managers	190	$75,450
Communications Professors	130	$65,150

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.