2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,374 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 365 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 32 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other communication and media studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful other communication and media studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region associate degree other communication and media studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

College of Western Idaho
Nampa, Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Western Idaho. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate. College of Western Idaho is located in Nampa, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 associates’s other communication and media studies degrees to qualified students.

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2

Weber State University
Ogden, Utah

#24 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Weber State University landed the #2 spot on the list. WSU is a large public school situated in Ogden, Utah. It awarded 2 associates’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Other 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

• *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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