2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Media Studies is the 74th most popular major in the country with 10,951 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Tennessee, there were 487 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Tennessee

#1

Johnson University

Knoxville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$18,915 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for an Associate in Tennessee list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s media studies students in 2019-2020.

Johnson University also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Johnson University is $18,915 for Tennessee Associate Degree Media Studies students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Johnson University Communication & Media Studies Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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