2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Journalism (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Journalism Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 14,528 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 62nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,042 and had an average of $24,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,738 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,835 and $21,613 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 89 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the journalism program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Journalism Schools

The journalism school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Journalism Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Journalism Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree journalism students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Journalism (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

San Antonio College

San Antonio, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,183 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Antonio College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Journalism Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. San Antonio College is a fairly large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 1 associates’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

San Antonio College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Journalism Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,183 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Journalism students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend San Antonio College.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Journalism (Income $0-$30k)

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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