2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology/Technician in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 915 people earned their degree in communications technology/technician, making the major the 607th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 693 communications technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 133 communications technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Communications Technology/Technician Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications technology/technician. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular communications technology/technician programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Communications Technology/Technician Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree communications technology/technician students.

Top 3 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology/Technician in the Southeast Region

1

Pellissippi State Community College
Knoxville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pellissippi State Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Communications Technology/Technician Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this medium-sized public school handed out 98 degrees to qualified associates’s communications tech students in 2020-2021.

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2

Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Full Sail University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Communications Technology/Technician Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. Full Sail University is located in Winter Park, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 35 associates’s communications tech degrees to qualified students.

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3

Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Communications Technology/Technician Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. This small school is located in Greenville, South Carolina, and it awarded 0 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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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• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology/Technician

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

• *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.