2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Nevada

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 Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Journalism is the 11th most popular major in the country with 120,571 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,266 and had an average of $24,758 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 523 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,592 and $28,919 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 51 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $17,303 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communication and journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Nevada

1

College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

#3 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Southern Nevada. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada list. Las Vegas, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communication and journalism degrees to 46 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at College of Southern Nevada

2

Truckee Meadows Community College
Reno, Nevada

#5 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Truckee Meadows Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada. Located in Reno, Nevada, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s communication and journalism students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Truckee Meadows Community College

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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.