2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies (Income $0-$30k)

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 Other Communication and Media Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,297 people earned their degree in other communication and media studies, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 164 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other communication and media studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other communication and media studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Other Communication and Media Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree other communication and media studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Full Sail University

Winter Park, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$27,998 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Full Sail University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Other Communication and Media Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k. Full Sail University is a large school located in Winter Park, Florida that handed out 31 associates’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Full Sail University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $27,998 for Associate Degree Other Communication and Media Studies students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Full Sail University.

Full Full Sail University Other Communication & Media Studies Report

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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