2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in the Plains States Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Visual Communications is the 154th most popular major in the country with 6,039 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 396 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 28 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual communications. That schools that top this list have a program in visual communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree graphic arts students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minneapolis Community and Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Minneapolis Community and Technical College is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 27 associates’s graphic arts degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Minneapolis Community and Technical College Visual Communications Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ridgewater College landed the #2 spot on the list. Ridgewater College is a small school located in Willmar, Minnesota that handed out 1 associates’s graphic arts degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual Communications at Ridgewater College
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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
- *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.
