2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other) in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Journalism (Other) is the 229th most popular major in the country with 1,128 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 138 communication and journalism (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,530 and $24,295 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 communication and journalism (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in communication and journalism (other). The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication and journalism (other) program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Other) in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ivy Tech Community College
Indianapolis, Indiana

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ivy Tech Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ivy Tech Community College is a large school located in Indianapolis, Indiana that handed out 9 associates’s other communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism (Other) at Ivy Tech Community College

2

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Valparaiso University landed the #2 spot on the list. Valpo is a private not-for-profit institution located in Valparaiso, Indiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Valpo Communication & Journalism (Other) Report

2

Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Madonna University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Livonia, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s other communications students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism (Other) at Madonna

2

Sinclair Community College
Dayton, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sinclair Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Other Communications Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s other communications students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism (Other) at Sinclair Community College

• 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.