2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Arts & Media Management is the 137th most popular major in the country with 5,059 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,959 and had an average of $35,302 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 623 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,857 and $32,324 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great arts and media management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the arts and media management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Hocking College

Nelsonville, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$12,793 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hocking College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. Hocking College is a small school located in Nelsonville, Ohio that handed out 10 associates’s media management degrees in 2019-2020.

Hocking Technical College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $12,793 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Media Management students per year to attend Hocking Technical College.

Read more about Arts & Media Management at Hocking College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management

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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