Table 9 : U.S. News World report and Gourman Rankings
| U.S. News | Gourman | ||||
| University | Advertising | Print Journalism | Public Relations | Radio/Television | Overall |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 5 | |||
| University of Florida | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | |
| Northwestern University | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| University of Texas at Austin | 4 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 9 |
| University of Georgia | 5 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Michigan State University | 6 | 10 | 18 | ||
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 7 | 4 | 5 | 19 | |
| University of Tennessee at Knoxville | 8 | ||||
| University of Missouri at Columbia | 9 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 3 |
| Syracuse University | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | 11 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 6 |
| University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa | 12 | 14 | |||
| University of Colorado at Boulder | 13 | ||||
| University of South Carolina at Columbia | 13 | 12 | |||
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln | 15 | ||||
| Columbia University | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Indiana University at Bloomington | 5 | 6 | 10 | ||
| Ohio University | 7 | 7 | 9 | 22 | |
| University of California at Berkeley | 9 | ||||
| University of Kansas | 9 | ||||
| University of Maryland at College Park | 11 | 1 | 15 | ||
| Arizona State University | 14 | 7 | |||
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | 15 | 4 | |||
| San Diego State University | 6 | ||||
| California State University at Fullerton | 11 | ||||
| Boston University | 15 | 14 | |||
| University of Southern California | 11 | 12 | |||
| Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | 13 | ||||
| Temple University | 14 | ||||
| Ohio State University | 21 | ||||
| New York University | 13 | ||||
| University of Iowa | 11 | ||||
| Penn State University | 20 | ||||
| Stanford | 8 | ||||
| Michigan | 7 | ||||
| Wayne State | 16 | ||||