2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology/Technician

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communications Technology/Technician is the 568th most popular major in the country with 823 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 198 communications technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications technology/technician. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communications technology/technician 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 communications technology/technician program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology/Technician

#1

Ozarks Technical Community College

Springfield, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$7,908 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozarks Technical Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Ozarks Technical Community College is a fairly large school located in Springfield, Missouri that handed out 29 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2019-2020.

OTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communications Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $7,908 for associate degree communications technology/technician students per year to attend OTC.

Full Ozarks Technical Community College Communications Technology/Technician Report

#2

Full Sail University

Winter Park, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$27,524 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Full Sail University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Technology/Technician Schools for an Associate list. Full Sail University is a large private for-profit school situated in Winter Park, Florida. It awarded 32 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Full Sail University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Communications Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Full Sail University is $27,524 for associate degree communications technology/technician 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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