Hello,
So I want to go to college for communications, and more specifically public relations. But would it be more beneficial to get a general communication degree or a public relations degree? And also, what would be the best schools to consider for public relations? I can’t find any rankings…
I can’t answer you question about which degree is better, that depends on the school and you. But in terms of which schools, that also depends on your range.
I don’t know much about Ivy level schools, but the following schools I have heard of having excellent communications and PR programs
UGA—this might be because I live in GA, but their Grady School is insanely good. I know of many people who graduated from Grady and went on to work at Fortune 500 offices in NYC, ATL, and LA.
USC
UCLA
NYU
UT Austin
UC Berkely
UNC Chapel Hill
UPenn
Wake Forest
Just to give you a wide range of diverse schools. Granted, all of these schools are prestigious anyways, they just have known programs.