Advertising at Western Kentucky University

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

WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and approximately 17,517 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students received a bachelor's degree in advertising from WKU.

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

WKU Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

WKU Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at WKU 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 advertising major at WKU 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
	38
	62
	63
	65

Advertising Student Demographics at WKU

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

WKU Advertising Bachelor’s Program

The advertising program at WKU awarded 33 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 15% of these degrees went to men with the other 85% going to women.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at WKU 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 Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• General Organizational Communication
• 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 KY, the home state for Western Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Communications Professors	420	$68,530
Advertising and Promotions Managers	190	$99,080

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 OPMaster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.