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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,287 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 236 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication & media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other communication & media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree other communication and media studies students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Castleton University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Castleton, Vermont, this small public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified associates’s other communication and media studies students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Manchester Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region. Manchester, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s other communication and media studies degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Communication & Media Studies at Manchester Community College
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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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