2025 Best General Journalism Associate Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
472Associate Degrees
an associate degree in general journalism is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #156 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Journalism Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 472 associate degrees in general journalism during the <nil> academic year.
Choosing a Great General Journalism School for Your Associate Degree
The journalism associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general journalism students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general journalism students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general journalism related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general journalism students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Journalism Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study General Journalism in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in general journalism.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).