Public Relations & Advertising at Assumption University

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

Assumption is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and approximately 2,448 students attend the school each year.

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

Assumption Public Relations & Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations

Assumption Public Relations & Advertising Rankings

The public relations major at Assumption is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations & 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.

Public Relations Student Demographics at Assumption

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public relations majors at Assumption University.

Assumption Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of public relations bachelor's degrees went to men and 27% went to women. The typical public relations bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at Assumption since its program graduates 45% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public relations at Assumption are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its public relations bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Public Relations & Advertising

The following public relations concentations are available at Assumption University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Assumption University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Organizational Communication	14

Related Majors

• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Public Relations Grads May Go Into

A degree in public relations can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Assumption University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Public Relations Specialists	7,040	$68,610
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	5,090	$131,460
Community Health Workers	3,660	$44,500
Editors	3,160	$89,280
Technical Writers	2,420	$89,630

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 Mattinbgn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.