2022 Best Value Communication & Journalism Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Communication & Journalism Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 121,387 people earned their degree in communication and journalism, making the major the 11th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,549 and had an average of $24,893 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 281 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,467 and $25,622 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 35 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and journalism program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Communication & Journalism Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication & Journalism Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$8,902 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Communication & Journalism Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communication and journalism degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

SMCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Journalism Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $8,902 for Maine Associate Degree Communication & Journalism students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Southern Maine Community College.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at SMCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

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

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