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2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in Ohio

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$4,329 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,317 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree School for You

With 2,149 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, communication and media studies is the #13 most popular major in Ohio.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in Ohio ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the communications associate degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree School

Our analysis found Sinclair Community College to be the best value school for communication and media studies students who want to pursue a associate degree in Ohio. Sinclair Community College is a fairly large public school located in the city of Dayton.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Sinclair Community College are $4,329 a year. After completing their Associate Degree, communications graduates from Sinclair Community College carry an average student debtload of $17,331.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Sinclair Community College

Best Value Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 1,789
Illinois 2,072
Indiana 1,600
Wisconsin 1,297

One of 5 majors within the area of study, communication and media studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Communications

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Relations & Advertising 21,099
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 17,669
Journalism 13,552
Communication & Journalism (Other) 1,128
Publishing 336

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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