Earn Your Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations

To apply for the BA in Public Relations program, students must have earned a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma prior to the semester in which they would like to enroll. Students are not required to take standardized tests and SoPA has an open admissions policy for all undergraduate study. Transfer students must be in good standing with the most recent prior college attended or have completed any dismissal terms set forth by the previous academic institution.

The School of Professional Advancement awards the Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations degree following the successful completion of 120 credits, including 30 credits in the major. Upon successful completion of required prerequisite courses, students will complete an internship in the Public Relations or Media Arts field.

Undergraduate students are required to maintain the following minimum grade-point average throughout their enrollment dependant on the total number of credit hours completed:

• 1-30 cumulative attempted credit hours completed: 1.75 minimum cumulative GPA
• 31-61 cumulative attempted credit hours completed: 1.85 minimum cumulative GPA
• 62-93 cumulative attempted credit hours completed: 1.95 minimum cumulative GPA
• 94-124 cumulative attempted credit hours completed: 2.00 minimum cumulative GPA

Students will be placed on academic probation upon failure to meet these requirements. The cumulative grade-point average of a student is calculated by dividing the number of quality points a student has earned by the total number of quality hours (including credits with failures). Only the grades of S, U, NR, W, and grades in courses affected by SoPA's Repeated Course policy are excluded from this calculation.

If you're interested in transferring to Tulane SoPA, our advisors can work with you to determine which courses will be accepted and help you navigate the process. We accept credits for transfer from all fully accredited institutions. In order to transfer course credit from another school, Tulane SoPA must offer a comparable course, and the student must have achieved a C- or higher. Courses transferred from other institutions are never figured into the grade point average. Your advisor can also help you in the case that your previous school operated on a quarter system instead of semesters. Tulane SoPA accepts a maximum of 60 hours of transfer credits for bachelor’s degrees.

Visit our Student Transfers page to learn more about this process.

In addition to the core competencies required for the Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations degree, there are seven core courses required in the major.

• Intro to Mass Media
• Media and the Law
• Principles of Public Relations
• Public Relations Writing
• Public Relations Campaigns
• Internet Public Relations
• Intro to Journalism

Major Requirements

Fall 2018 & Spring 2019 Tuition

• All Undergraduate: $433/credit
• Non-SoPA courses that are not cross-listed: $2,116/credit

Fall 2018 & Spring 2019 Fees

• Undergraduate Application Fee: $40
• Uptown & Elmwood Academic Support Fee: $60
• MS Coast Academic Support Fee: $25
• MS Coast Student Support Fee: $10
• Uptown and Elmwood students are assessed a student activity fee of $12 per three-credit course or $48 maximum student activity fee for four or more courses

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