2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Communications Technology is the 281st most popular major in the country with 915 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communications technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $21,549 and had an average of $15,650 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 95 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,762 and $26,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in communications technology. That schools that top this list have a program in communications technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Allegany College of Maryland
Cumberland, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Allegany College of Maryland. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Cumberland, Maryland, and it awarded 11 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Allegany College of Maryland Communications Technology Report

2

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry
Dover, Delaware

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware Technical Community College - Terry landed the #2 spot on the list. Delaware Technical Community College - Terry is a fairly large school located in Dover, Delaware that handed out 13 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Delaware Tech Communications Technology Report

3

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania landed the #3 spot on the list. East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communications tech degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communications Technology at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

3

Touro College
New York, New York

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Touro College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Touro College is a fairly large school located in New York, New York that handed out 0 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Touro Communications Technology Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.