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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2021-2022, 10,005 people earned their degree in communication & media studies, making the major the 82nd most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,047 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 162 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,642 and $15,171 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in communication & media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication & media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Union County College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Union County College is a medium-sized school located in Cranford, New Jersey that handed out 45 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Union County College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Borough of Manhattan Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New York, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s media studies degrees to 65 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Herkimer County Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Herkimer County Community College is located in Herkimer, New York and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Full Herkimer College Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Philadelphia. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Community College of Philadelphia is a public institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 25 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Full Community College of Philadelphia Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nassau Community College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Nassau Community College is located in Garden City, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 22 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Nassau Community College Communication & Media Studies Report
Cayuga County Community College ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Cayuga Community College is a small public school situated in Auburn, New York. It awarded 3 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Cayuga Community College Communication & Media Studies Report
Elizabethtown College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Etown is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 15 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Elizabethtown College
Onondaga Community College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #8. Located in Syracuse, New York, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s media studies students in 2021-2022.
Full Onondaga Community College Communication & Media Studies Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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