2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician in Iowa

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician is the 376th most popular major in the country with 1,562 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Iowa, there were 34 radio and television broadcasting technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 radio and television broadcasting technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,684 and $18,179 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in radio and television broadcasting technology/technician. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality radio and television broadcasting technology/technician programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the radio and television broadcasting technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician in Iowa

#1

Iowa Western Community College

Council Bluffs, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$11,477 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa Western Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa. Council Bluffs, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s radio and television broadcasting tech degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa Western Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $11,477 for iowa associate degree radio and television broadcasting tech students per year to attend Iowa Western Community College.

Read more about Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician at Iowa Western Community College

#2

Western Iowa Tech Community College

Sioux City, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$7,201 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Iowa Tech Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Radio and Television Broadcasting Tech Schools for an Associate in Iowa. Western Iowa Tech Community College is located in Sioux City, Iowa and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 associates’s radio and television broadcasting tech degrees to qualified students.

Western Iowa Tech Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Radio & Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Western Iowa Tech Community College is $7,201 for iowa associate degree radio and television broadcasting tech students.

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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

• *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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