2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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 Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 5,059 people earned their degree in arts and media management, making the major the 137th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 2,124 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,100 and $27,530 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 75 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in arts and media management. 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.

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 arts and media management program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree media management students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Guilford Technical Community College

Jamestown, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$8,584 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Guilford Technical Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Jamestown, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s media management degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Guilford Technical Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Guilford Technical Community College is $8,584 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Media Management students.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Guilford Technical Community College

#2

SAE Institute - Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$41,105 Average Net Price

$20,886 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SAE Institute - Nashville landed the #2 spot on the list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s media management degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SAE Institute - Nashville, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SAE Institute - Nashville is $41,105 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Media Management students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full SAE Institute - Nashville Arts & Media Management Report

#3

Full Sail University

Winter Park, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$27,524 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Full Sail University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Media Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Full Sail University is a large private for-profit school situated in Winter Park, Florida. It awarded 26 associates’s media management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Full Sail University, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Full Sail University is $27,524 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Media Management students.

Read more about Arts & Media Management at Full Sail University

• 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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