Master of Arts in Public Relations

The Master of Arts in Public Relations is a fully online, technology rich, professionally focused graduate degree program created to serve a growing need across Georgia's media, communications, marketing, and advertising arenas. The program will prepare students to effectively utilize multimedia channels to strategically manage communication between individuals, organizations, and the public.

8
Weeks per class

30
Total credit hours

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Public relations practitioners form, build and maintain relationships between an organization and publics by finding common interests. Practitioners are trusted counsel who advise, engage employees, and build public trust. Students will learn strategic and theoretical principles in courses such as PR Campaigns, PR Foundation and Theory, Fundraising and Planning, and Crisis Communication, in Georgia’s only fully online Master of Arts in Public Relations. The program is designed to enhance skills related to public relations writing and strategy, multimedia content creation, public relations ethics, research, communication strategies for social media, and more.  Students who earn this degree will be ready to step into a career in the growing field of public relations, ready to forge new paths in the professional world. 

View the list of courses for this program in the course catalog.