2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Communications Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 823 people earned their degree in communications technology, making the major the 272nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, communications technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $18,680 and had an average of $18,803 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 49 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $15,300 and $9,962 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communications technology programs, but they also cost less that 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 program at the school. 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 Communications Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communications Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree communications tech students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Plains States Region

#1

Ozarks Technical Community College

Springfield, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$7,908 Average Net Price

$21,508 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Communications Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozarks Technical Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communications tech degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

OTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communications Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Ozarks Technical Community College is $7,908 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Communications Tech students.

Full Ozarks Technical Community College Communications Technology 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).
• 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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