2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio, Television & Digital Communication in the New England Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Digital Communication Schools for an Associate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Radio, Television & Digital Communication is the 71st most popular major in the country with 17,036 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, radio, television and digital communication graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,530 and had an average of $23,273 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 780 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,800 and $21,437 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 63 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,753 and $14,559 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality radio, television and digital communication programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the radio, television and digital communication 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Digital Communication Schools for an Associate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Digital Communication Schools for an Associate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Digital Communication Schools for an Associate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio, Television & Digital Communication in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$10,647 Average Net Price

$22,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Maine Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Digital Communication Schools for an Associate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in South Portland, Maine, and it awarded 35 associates’s digital communication degrees in 2019-2020.

SMCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Radio, Television & Digital Communication Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $10,647 for New England Region Associate Degree Digital Communication students with aid per year to attend SMCC.

Read full report on Radio, Television & Digital Communication at Southern Maine Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio, Television & Digital Communication (With Aid)

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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