2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications in Minnesota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Audiovisual Communications is the 145th most popular major in the country with 6,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Minnesota, there were 118 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,367 and $16,903 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 90 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,738 and $20,226 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in audiovisual communications. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality audiovisual communications programs that also have a lower cost than 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 audiovisual communications program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications in Minnesota

#1

Hennepin Technical College

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$11,796 Average Net Price

$26,353 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Hennepin Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Brooklyn Park, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s audiovisual degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Hennepin Technical College also made our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $11,796 for Minnesota Associate Degree Audiovisual students per year to attend Hennepin Technical College.

Read full report on Audiovisual Communications at Hennepin Technical College

#2

Minneapolis Community and Technical College

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$12,376 Average Net Price

$26,739 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minneapolis Community and Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota list. Minneapolis Community and Technical College is a medium-sized school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 11 associates’s audiovisual degrees in 2019-2020.

Minneapolis Community and Technical College also made our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $12,376 for Minnesota Associate Degree Audiovisual students per year to attend Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

Read full report on Audiovisual Communications at Minneapolis Community and Technical College

#3

Institute of Production and Recording

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#3 in overall quality

$23,514 Average Net Price

$23,262 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for an Associate in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Institute of Production and Recording landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this small private for-profit school handed out 62 diplomas to qualified associates’s audiovisual students in 2019-2020.

Institute of Production and Recording also took the #3 spot in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. It costs about $23,514 for Minnesota Associate Degree Audiovisual students per year to attend Institute of Production and Recording.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Audiovisual Communications at Institute of Production and Recording

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications

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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