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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 3,626 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in communication and media studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication and media studies.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree media studies students.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gordon State College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Barnesville, Georgia, and it awarded 7 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Gordon State College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend John Tyler Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region. John Tyler Community College is a medium-sized school located in Chester, Virginia that handed out 9 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at John Tyler Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbellsville University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Campbellsville University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Campbellsville, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Campbellsville University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Johnson University is a small school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 3 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Johnson University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Military College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Military College is a public institution located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Georgia Military College Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Tulane University of Louisiana is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Tulane
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lane College landed the #4 spot on the list. Lane College is located in Jackson, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 associates’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Lane College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Cumberlands. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Southeast Region. University of the Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Williamsburg, Kentucky. It awarded 0 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Cumberlands Communication & Media Studies Report
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- 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%.
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- *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.
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