Public Relations & Advertising at Bradley University

If you are interested in studying public relations and advertising, you may want to check out the program at Bradley University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Bradley is located in Peoria, Illinois and approximately 5,855 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 69 students received a bachelor's degree in public relations from Bradley.

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.

Bradley Public Relations & Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations

Bradley Public Relations & Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the public relations progam at Bradley 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 public relations major at Bradley 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Public Relations & Advertising Schools	60
Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Schools	157

How Much Do Public Relations Graduates from Bradley Make?

The median salary of public relations students who receive their bachelor's degree at Bradley is $36,966. This is 0% higher than $36,826, which is the national average for all public relations bachelor's degree recipients.

Public Relations Student Demographics at Bradley

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

Bradley Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 69 public relations majors earned their bachelor's degree from Bradley. Of these graduates, 54% were men and 46% were women. The typical public relations bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% men. So male students are more repesented at Bradley since its program graduates 26% more men than average.

About 61% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public relations at Bradley are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 Bradley University with a bachelor's in public relations.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	42
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Journalism
• Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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 IL, the home state for Bradley University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	5,160	$119,330
Editors	3,830	$62,590
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Technical Writers	1,460	$69,320

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 AscendedAnathema under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.