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2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
10 Degrees Awarded
$16,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Communication & Media Studies is the 74th most popular major in the country with 10,951 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,821 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree media studies students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Johnson University

Knoxville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s media studies degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Johnson University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Johnson University is $16,404 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Media Studies students whose families make $30-$48k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Johnson University

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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