2022 Best Value TV Schools for an Associate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value TV Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 6,960 people earned their degree in radio and television, making the major the 132nd most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 967 radio and television graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great radio and television programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the radio and television program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 “Best Value TV Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value TV Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value TV Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio & Television

#1

San Antonio College

San Antonio, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,882 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Antonio College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value TV Schools for an Associate list. San Antonio College is a fairly large public school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 9 associates’s TV degrees in 2019-2020.

San Antonio College also made our “Best Radio & Television Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $5,882 for associate degree tv students per year to attend San Antonio College.

Full San Antonio College Radio & Television 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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