2022 Best Value Communications Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Communications Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 68,079 communication and media studies students received their degree, making the major the 9th most popular in the country. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 9,349 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,317 and $25,730 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 102 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Communications Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Sinclair Community College

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$4,208 Average Net Price

$24,421 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinclair Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 33 diplomas to qualified associates’s communications students in 2019-2020.

Sinclair Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Sinclair Community College is $4,208 for great lakes region associate degree communications students with aid.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Sinclair Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (With Aid)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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