Undergraduate Degree in Advertising: Persuasive Messaging with UF Online
Study the field of advertising while learning specialized skills in strategic messaging, branding, and more. With an online bachelor’s degree in Advertising: Persuasive Messaging, UF Advertising majors tell brand stories across the globe and connect with audiences in traditional and unexpected ways.
The Bachelor of Science in Advertising: Persuasive Messaging is housed within the Department of Advertising at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications (CJC), one of the top colleges in the country for this field of study. By balancing conceptual frameworks with professional skills, students graduate with the knowledge and experience today’s employers seek.
This degree features robust curriculum in areas such as strategy, branding, research, and analytics. It will also prepare students to work in a culturally diverse and technologically shifting marketplace. Students even gain hands-on experience by taking experiential study abroad learning courses with the CJC.
The Advertising: Persuasive Messaging program will provide students with the professional skills, problem-solving abilities, and persuasion techniques needed to succeed in a variety of positions within the growing advertising industry. An emphasis on teaching students how to engage with audiences and tell brand stories have broad relevancy within audience-centered fields such as education, health, sales, and law. Required courses include Advertising Strategy, Consumer and Audience Analytics, Digital Insights, Writing Fundamentals for Mass Communicators, and more. With these courses and a variety of electives, students can customize their own plan of study to fit the needs of their specific area of interest.
Admissions Requirements
Bachelor of Science
Major: Advertising: Persuasive Messaging
College of Journalism and Communications
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Career Tracks and Opportunities
What professions will a major in Advertising: Persuasive Messaging help prepare you for?
- Account Management
- Account Planner
- Brand Management or Strategist
- Digital Media Strategist
- Entrepreneurship
- Media and Market Researchers
- Marketing and Communications
- Social Media Specialist or Manager
Please visit the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics or Career One Stop for additional suggestions on further career pathways and opportunities.
It’s the same online as it is in person. The courses and professors are the same. There are so many benefits to UF Online because even not living in Florida, I still had the same resources available to me.
– Stephanie Gamboa, UF Online Advertising Student
Admissions Requirements
- If you have 0-11 transferable college credits, review the Freshman admissions requirements.
- If you have 12-59 transferable credits, review the Lower Division Transfer admission requirements.
Upper division transfer applicants (students with 60 or more college credits earned) and Second Bachelor’s degree seeking applicants should have at least a 2.0 overall GPA and completed the following 5 prerequisite courses with at least a 2.0 GPA. To be competitive for admission, applicants should have a minimum 2.5 or higher overall GPA.
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- Argument and Persuasion (ENC 1102)
- American History since 1877 (AMH 2020)
- American Federal Government (POS 2041) OR General Psychology (PSY 2012)
- Introduction to Statistics (STA 2023)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO 2013)
Note: Principles of Microeconomics (ECO 2023) may be substituted for ECO 2013.
*Note:
- All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.
- Unsuccessful attempts in prerequisite courses may lower competitiveness.
- Unsuccessful attempts in additional courses in the desired major may lower competitiveness.
- Out of state courses used to meet prerequisites may need to be evaluated by the appropriate department upon admission.
Why choose UF Online?
At the University of Florida, our passion goes beyond our walls – and so do our opportunities.
UF Online’s B.S. in Advertising: Persuasive Messaging is a top-ranking online advertising degree program with a variety of specialized courses that will prepare students with the skills they need for their future careers. Our program offers students a convenient online education, top faculty in the area, post-graduate opportunities – all for a fraction of the cost of comparable degree programs.
Designed for students seeking flexibility without compromising on quality, our online program stands at the forefront, providing versatile academic options with the same award-winning faculty and rigor that makes us a leading university and top research institution. We connect people with opportunities, remove barriers and set the standard for online higher education. UF Online advertising degree graduates earn the same degree they would receive on campus, and they will be at the top of the list for the best employers in the country.
