2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Arts & Media Management is the 137th most popular major in the country with 5,059 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,959 and had an average of $35,302 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 623 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,857 and $32,324 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in arts and media management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality arts and media management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the arts and media management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Hocking College

Nelsonville, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$11,116 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hocking College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Nelsonville, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s media management degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Hocking Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Hocking College is $11,116 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Media Management students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Hocking Technical College

#2

SAE Institute - Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$23,900 Average Net Price

$20,886 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SAE Institute - Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. This small school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 3 associates’s media management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SAE Institute - Chicago, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $23,900 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Media Management students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend SAE Institute - Chicago.

Full SAE Institute - Chicago Arts & Media Management Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management (Income $30-$48k)

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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