2023 Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
237
Degrees Awarded
$23,076
Avg Student Debt
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Audiovisual for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Audiovisual Communications is the 152nd most popular major in the country with 6,229 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, audiovisual communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $23,273 and had an average of $24,602 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,088 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,837 and $26,187 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 237 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality audiovisual communications programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the audiovisual communications program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Audiovisual for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Audiovisual for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree vets studying audiovisual.
Top 1 Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Audiovisual for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s audiovisual degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Houston Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Audiovisual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Houston Community College supports 48,329 students, and 1,421 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 783 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,632. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Houston Community College Veteran Student Life Report
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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