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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Southeast region, there were 3,624 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 $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 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 colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree media studies students.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gordon State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Gordon State College is located in Barnesville, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
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 more about Communication & Media Studies at Gordon State College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Tyler Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. John Tyler Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Chester, Virginia. It awarded 15 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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 John Tyler Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbellsville University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Campbellsville University is located in Campbellsville, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Campbellsville University
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson University landed the #4 spot on the list. Johnson University is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Johnson University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Military College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Milledgeville, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s media studies degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Georgia Military College Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 0 associates’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. The impressive undergraduate 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.
Full Tulane Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lane College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Lane College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Jackson, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Full Lane College Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Cumberlands. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Cumberlands is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 University of the Cumberlands
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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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