2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Management and Strategic Communications

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 Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication Management and Strategic Communications is the 352nd most popular major in the country with 1,397 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 318 communication management and strategic communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communication management and strategic communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication management and strategic communications.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree communication management and strategic communications students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Management and Strategic Communications

1

Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, New York

Top 1% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fashion Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major list. This medium-sized school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 318 associates’s communication management and strategic communications degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Fashion Institute of Technology Communication Management and Strategic Communications Report

2

University of Advancing Technology
Tempe, Arizona

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Management and Strategic Communications Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Advancing Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s communication management and strategic communications degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Advancing Technology Communication Management and Strategic Communications Report

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.