Public Relations at University of Rhode Island

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

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and approximately 17,649 students attend the school each year.

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

URI Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

URI Public Relations Rankings

The pr major at URI is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations. 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.

PR Student Demographics at URI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the pr majors at University of Rhode Island.

URI Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 26% of pr bachelor's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. The typical pr bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at URI since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in pr at URI 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 University of Rhode Island with a bachelor's in pr.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	81
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Sports Communication

Careers That PR Grads May Go Into

A degree in pr can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Public Relations Specialists	1,150	$67,480
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	370	$153,480
Communications Professors	120	$80,330
Advertising and Promotions Managers	70	$118,380

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.