Program Payoff

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication programs in Utah

5 schools in Utah teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in Utah

Training and Development Specialists in Utah earn a median of $60,900 a year across 6,140 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Utah
Human Resources Managers$131,3802,240
Public Relations Specialists$62,6701,800
Fundraisers$61,820920
Editors$65,040590
Public Relations Managers$132,670580

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Ensign College Salt Lake City Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Southern Utah University Cedar City Undergraduate certificate not published 1
University of Utah Salt Lake City Undergraduate certificate not published
Utah State University Logan Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Utah Tech University Saint George Undergraduate certificate not published 11

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.