2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the New England 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Arts & Media Management is the 136th most popular major in the country with 4,788 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,900 and had an average of $25,520 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 393 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,374 and $28,300 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in arts and media management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their arts and media management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in the New England Region

1

Capital Community College
Hartford, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capital Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region. Capital Community College is a small public school situated in Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 6 associates’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Capital Community College Arts & Media Management Report

2

Bay State College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bay State College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 associates’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Bay State College Arts & Media Management Report

3

Central Maine Community College
Auburn, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Maine Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region list. Central Maine Technical College is a public institution located in Auburn, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Central Maine Community College Arts & Media Management Report

4

Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #4 spot on the list. Northern Vermont University is located in Johnson, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s media management degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Northern Vermont University

• Most Focused 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

• *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.

Credits

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