2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Broadcast Journalism in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Broadcast Journalism Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Broadcast Journalism is the 457th most popular major in the country with 881 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 175 broadcast journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 broadcast journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in broadcast journalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their broadcast journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree broadcast journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Broadcast Journalism in the Southwest Region

1

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Plains College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Levelland, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified associates’s broadcast journalism students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Broadcast Journalism at South Plains College

2

Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Santa Fe Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in the Southwest Region. SFCC is a small school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico that handed out 0 associates’s broadcast journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Santa Fe Community College Broadcast Journalism Report

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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.

Credits

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