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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,005 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 240 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,137 and $16,077 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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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 Rocky Mountains Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Casper College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This small school is located in Casper, Wyoming, and it awarded 2 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Casper College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Laramie County Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, this small public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s media studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Laramie County Community College
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
- *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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