2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other) in California

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Other Communications Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,128 people earned their degree in communication and journalism (other), making the major the 229th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,960 and had an average of $23,774 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 60 communication and journalism (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,622 and $25,250 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 communication and journalism (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,972 and $17,699 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in communication and journalism (other). That schools that top this list have a program in communication and journalism (other) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other) in California

1

Mt. San Antonio College
Walnut, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. San Antonio College landed the #1 spot on the list. Walnut, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s other communications degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

Full Mt. SAC Communication & Journalism (Other) Report

2

San Jose City College
San Jose, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jose City College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California. San Jose City College is a medium-sized school located in San Jose, California that handed out 1 associates’s other communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism (Other) at San Jose City College

3

Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Diablo Valley College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in California. Diablo Valley is a fairly large school located in Pleasant Hill, California that handed out 1 associates’s other communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Diablo Valley College Communication & Journalism (Other) Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other) in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other)

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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