by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 564 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Butler Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region. Butler CC is a medium-sized school located in El Dorado, Kansas that handed out 4 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 2 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Saint Louis Community College Communication & Media Studies Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Central University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified associates’s media studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at North Central University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, and it awarded 0 associates’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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