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Topics such as how public relations education should be, what are the expectations of academics, the industry and students, the creation of the curriculum, standardization studies are among many topics discussed in the field. The objective of this study is to identify the opinions of public relations students studying at the Bachelor's level at the Faculty of Communication in light of many studies on public relations education and to reveal the relationship of these opinions with the demographic characteristics. The research is limited to students of the Kocaeli University School of Communications Public Relations and Promotion Department and the Sakarya University School of Communications Public Relations and Advertising Department. The research used the relative scanning model, the survey form was applied as the data collection method. A total of 318 students from both universities participated in the study. The results were evaluated by the SPSS Statistics 20 program. According to the study’s basic findings; public relations education statements were found that students attended at an average level of 3,2668 participants. The study concluded that the students’ opinions on public relations education were in a positive direction. The results of the analysis also found differences in opinions on public relations education according to the university and classroom in which students studied.