Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication at University of South Florida - Main Campus

What traits are you looking for in a public relations, advertising, and applied communication school? To help you decide if University of South Florida - Main Campus is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's public relations, advertising, and applied communication program.

USF Tampa is located in Tampa, Florida and approximately 50,626 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,245 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of South Florida - Main Campus in 2021, 183 of them were public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors.

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

USF Tampa Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication

USF Tampa Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the public relations, advertising, and applied communication progam at USF Tampa compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The public relations, advertising, and applied communication major at USF Tampa is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication. 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
	4
	20
	33
	44

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Student Demographics at USF Tampa

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public relations, advertising, and applied communication majors at University of South Florida - Main Campus.

USF Tampa Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 27% of public relations, advertising, and applied communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women. The typical public relations, advertising, and applied communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at USF Tampa since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication at USF Tampa are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its public relations, advertising, and applied communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of South Florida - Main Campus with a bachelor's in public relations, advertising, and applied communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	45
White	96
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

USF Tampa also has a doctoral program available in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Advertising

Careers That Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication 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 South Florida - Main Campus.

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 Rick DeBow under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.