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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,005 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 744 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,173 and $16,736 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication & media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication & media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Philadelphia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania list. This fairly large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 25 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Community College of Philadelphia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Elizabethtown College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania list. Etown is a small school located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania that handed out 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%.
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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%.
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- *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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