2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region
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 Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2019-2020, 6,668 people earned their degree in audiovisual communications, making the major the 145th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, audiovisual communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $22,392 and had an average of $24,925 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 882 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,200 and $27,307 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 246 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in audiovisual communications. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great audiovisual communications 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 audiovisual communications 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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Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.
Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications in the Southwest Region
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston Community College is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 23 associates’s audiovisual degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree audiovisual students list, Houston Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Houston Community College is $5,272 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Audiovisual students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Plains College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. South Plains College is a public institution located in Levelland, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree audiovisual students list, South Plains College has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for South Plains College is $7,600 for southwest region associate degree audiovisual students.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Glendale Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Glendale, Arizona, this fairly large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified associates’s audiovisual students in 2019-2020.
Glendale Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,597 for southwest region associate degree audiovisual students per year to attend Glendale Community College.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mesa Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Mesa Community College is a public institution located in Mesa, Arizona. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 14 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree audiovisual students list, Mesa Community College has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mesa Community College is $9,669 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Audiovisual students.
Full Mesa Community College Audiovisual Communications Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarrant County College District. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Tarrant County College is a large public school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 13 associates’s audiovisual degrees in 2019-2020.
Tarrant County College also took the #8 spot in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Tarrant County College is $5,434 for southwest region associate degree audiovisual students.
Read full report on Audiovisual Communications at Tarrant County College
With a ranking of #6, Austin Community College District did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s audiovisual students in 2019-2020.
Austin Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $6,861 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Audiovisual students per year to attend Austin Community College District.
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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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