2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Florida

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Communications Major in Florida” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 66,787 communication and media studies students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,115 and had an average of $25,414 in loans still to pay off.

Across Florida, there were 3,541 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,820 and $26,431 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,132 and $22,101 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Florida

The colleges and universities below are the best for florida associate degree communications students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Florida

1

Unilatina International College
Miramar, Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Unilatina International College landed the #1 spot on the list. Miramar, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s communications degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Unilatina International College

2

Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

$24,410 Average Early-Career Earnings

$32,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Full Sail University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Florida list. Full Sail University is a private for-profit institution located in Winter Park, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 39 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Full Sail University

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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

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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