If you’re cool under pressure, a team player, a problem solver and a strong speaker and writer, check out a career in PR. As a public relations major, you'll learn to build and maintain good relationships, public understanding and reputation for various types of organizations. The public relations professional applies an integrated and creative approach to promote products and services by mastering PR strategies, tactics, emerging technologies and social media.

THE MARQUETTE Public Relations Major

MANAGE A BRAND's REPUTATION. As a public relations major, you'll help organizations accurately communicate their images to customers, employees, investors and the media. You'll learn how to positively influence business practices of clients and corporations.

Make the right connections. Gain an early advantage by participating in Public Relations Student Society of America, where Marquette's public relations majors connect with PR pros and learn about specialization opportunities in business, agency, nonprofit, health care, sports and entertainment.

LEARN FROM THE PROS. Experienced professors together with industry professionals deliver a rigorous curriculum that is both conceptual and applied.

INTERN — IT'S REQUIRED. Required internships in and around Milwaukee give Marquette's public relations majors experiential learning opportunities that often lead to a full-time job after graduation. They also let students specialize in chosen areas and help develop professional networks.

Make a difference. Work behind the scenes to help organizations or clients build and maintain ethical leadership. Be a key driver in solving social issues. Be part of crisis mitigation and advance worthwhile causes to improve quality of life and society as a whole.

Visit the department that offers the public relations major.

You might like the public relations major if you:

• Are imaginative and creative
• Are an excellent communicator

What can you do with a major in public relations?

Marquette's public relations graduates typically work for PR agencies or PR departments of Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, government, hospitals and universities. Learn more about what you can do with a major in public relations.

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