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Our Master of Science (MS) in Marketing – Public Relations Online Degree Can Help You Cast a Spotlight on Your Business

Liberty University’s online Master of Science (MS) in Marketing – Public Relations (PR) degree can help you learn how to set a business on the path to success by developing your professional abilities, nurturing your communication skills, and enhancing your public relations expertise.

With studies in media technologies and strategic digital communication, our public relations and marketing degree can help equip you with a fundamental understanding of how marketing and content creation can improve a business’s reputation in the market. The online public relations degree can help you build a skill set that can be used to promote any business through marketing and PR.

The online master’s in public relations and marketing was created to provide insight into marketing best practices in a program of study that can be completed completely online while you continue to work and stay connected with your family, church, and community.

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Why Choose Liberty’s Online Marketing – Public Relations Master’s Program?

If you want to enter the marketing industry and represent your business to the world, Liberty University’s marketing and public relations online degree is designed to help equip you with state-of-the-art tools and techniques for reaching your business’s top markets and streamlining the use of business assets.

Our marketing and public relations degree can help you learn how to use marketing analytics, digital media, and social networks to increase your brand’s recognition and spearhead marketing campaigns, all while managing the public’s perception of your business and increasing its influence. Marketing and PR professionals often play an integral role in the success of their organizations, and the importance of their work often warrants above-average pay.

Liberty’s mission to Train Champions for Christ means that we seek to produce professionals who are ethical, biblically responsible business experts. Whether you are currently working in public relations, leading a marketing team, or looking to start a new career, our online public relations master’s degree can help you on your journey.

What Will You Study in the Online Marketing Master’s Degree in Public Relations?

Liberty’s online Master of Science in Marketing – Public Relations degree can help you develop a mastery of marketing strategies and public relations functions across various industries and business roles, enabling you to become a marketable and flexible asset. You will study how to establish complex and innovative marketing solutions to meet corporate communication needs, as well as how to assess and mitigate brand image issues.

You can also learn how proper messaging can make or break a business’s market influence. Through the public relations area of study, you will engage in relations problem analysis, strategic planning for relations response, messaging development, and tactical solutions to handle any situation.

Our online master’s in marketing and public relations degree combines core business and marketing courses with public relations online courses. Your core courses offer an overview of strategic marketing management, marketing promotions, supply chain management, and marketing research. You will also study consumer behavior, ethical and legal issues in marketing, and brand management.

The public relations section of this degree covers communication and conflict in organizational and cultural contexts. The public relations specialization also includes a study of media technologies, communication strategies, and strategic communication campaigns for the digital age.

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At Liberty University, a private Christian education is less expensive than you think. Over the last 10 years, Liberty University’s Online Program has only raised its standard tuition costs by less than 5% – and most of our online tuition rates rank in the top 35% for affordability for 2025 when compared to our leading online competitors.

Graduate Full Time	$580/Credit
Graduate Part Time	$645/Credit
Military Graduate	$290/Credit

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 3.0 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
Undergraduate business prerequisites – Students are required to have 27 hours of undergraduate business coursework on their transcripts. If students do not meet the 27 hours of undergraduate business coursework, they may take the 3 credit hour BMAL 590 course to fulfill this requirement once they are admitted to the program. Students that meet the 27 hours of undergraduate courses in the following areas would not need to take BMAL 590:
- Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Quantitative Analysis (statistics)
- Operations Management
- Marketing
- Ethics
- Economics
- Accounting
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.

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If you are sending in a preliminary transcript for acceptance, you must:

Be in your final term and planning to start your master’s degree after the last day of class for your bachelor’s degree.
Complete a Bachelor’s Self-Certification Form confirming your completion date. You may download the form from the Forms and Downloads page or contact an admissions counselor to submit the form on your behalf.
Submit an official/unofficial transcript to confirm that you are in your final term. The preliminary transcript must show a minimum of 105 completed credit hours.
If you are a current Liberty University student completing your undergraduate degree, you will need to submit a Degree/Certificate Completion Application.
Send in an additional, final official transcript with a conferral date on it by the end of your first semester of enrollment in the new master’s degree.

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Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:

Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
Cumulative GPA
A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
Degree and date conferred (if applicable)

Official College Transcript Policy

An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.

If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

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*Not applicable to certificates.

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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