2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 5,059 people earned their degree in arts and media management, making the major the 137th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 2,124 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,100 and $27,530 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 75 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree media management students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Guilford Technical Community College

Jamestown, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$9,655 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Guilford Technical Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Guilford Technical Community College is a fairly large school located in Jamestown, North Carolina that handed out 8 associates’s media management degrees in 2019-2020.

Guilford Technical Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $9,655 for southeast region associate degree media management students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Guilford Technical Community College.

Read more about Arts & Media Management at Guilford Technical Community College

#2

Full Sail University

Winter Park, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$27,044 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Full Sail University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Winter Park, Florida, this large private for-profit school handed out 26 degrees to qualified associates’s media management students in 2019-2020.

Full Sail University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Full Sail University is $27,044 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Media Management students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Full Sail University

#3

SAE Institute - Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$41,835 Average Net Price

$20,886 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SAE Institute - Nashville. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s media management degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

SAE Institute - Nashville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend SAE Institute - Nashville is $41,835 for southeast region associate degree media management students whose families make $48-$75k.

With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full SAE Institute - Nashville Arts & Media Management Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management (Income $48-$75k)

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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