2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$20,140
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 915 people earned their degree in communications technology, making the major the 281st most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 693 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,760 and $15,250 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 133 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technology in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pellissippi State Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Pellissippi State Community College is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 98 associates’s communications tech degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Communications Technology at Pellissippi State Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Full Sail University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Full Sail University is a private for-profit institution located in Winter Park, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 35 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Full Sail University Communications Technology Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bob Jones University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major in the Southeast Region. Bob Jones University is a small school located in Greenville, South Carolina that handed out 0 associates’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Communications Technology at Bob Jones University
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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
- *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.