2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Photography in the Plains States Region

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Photography is the 310th most popular major in the country with 2,184 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 48 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Photography Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in photography. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their photography program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Photography Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree photography students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Photography in the Plains States Region

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Dakota College at Bottineau
Bottineau, North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota College at Bottineau. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Photography Major in the Plains States Region list. Bottineau, North Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s photography degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Full Dakota College at Bottineau Photography Report

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Dakota County Technical College
Rosemount, Minnesota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota County Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Photography Major in the Plains States Region list. DCTC is a public institution located in Rosemount, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Photography at DCTC

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Photography

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.