Public Relations & Advertising at San Jose State University

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

San Jose State is located in San Jose, California and has a total student population of 36,208. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 80 students received a bachelor's degree in public relations from San Jose State.

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.

San Jose State Public Relations & Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations

San Jose State Public Relations & Advertising Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks public relations programs across the country. The following shows how San Jose State performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The public relations major at San Jose State 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
Most Focused Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	225

Earnings of San Jose State Public Relations Graduates

The median salary of public relations students who receive their bachelor's degree at San Jose State is $49,739. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 35% higher than the national average of $36,826 for all public relations bachelor's degree recipients.

Public Relations Student Demographics at San Jose State

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

San Jose State Public Relations & Advertising Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 80 students earned a bachelor's degree in public relations from San Jose State. About 66% of these graduates were women and the other 34% were men. The typical public relations bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% men. So male students are more repesented at San Jose State since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% 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 San Jose State University with a bachelor's in public relations.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	25
White	14
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

San Jose State 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
• 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 CA, the home state for San Jose State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Public Relations Specialists	26,820	$72,910
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	8,330	$141,990
Technical Writers	6,240	$91,310
Community Health Workers	6,160	$49,260

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.