Bachelor's · Gainesville, Florida
Is Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at University of Florida worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $54,674
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $74,759
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $13,471
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $25k (likely $25k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $38k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.6 years (likely 1.4–1.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $184k (likely $138k – $226k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $647k (likely $524k – $780k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 92%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward media & storytelling majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
IB Higher Level
- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
- Film HL
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Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at other schools in Florida
- University of Miami$82,999
- University of Florida-Online$69,600
- Florida State University$65,941
- Florida International University$65,343
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- University of South Florida$42,377