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2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,295 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,317 Avg Salary

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

With 66,787 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, communication and media studies is the #10 most popular major in the United States.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

The Best Value Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for communications students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for communications majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Communication & Media Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Columbus State University the best value school in the Southeast Region for communication and media studies students working on their associate degree. CSU is a medium-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at CSU are $17,295 a year.

Full Communication & Media Studies at Columbus State University Report

#2

Full Sail University

Winter Park, FL

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Full Sail University is a great value for communication and media studies students working on their associate degree. Located in the suburb of Winter Park, Full Sail University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.

Full Sail University undergraduate students pay an average of $25,687 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Full Sail University

Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best communication and media studies colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 795
Virginia 2,064
North Carolina 2,972
Florida 3,020
Tennessee 1,000
Kentucky 787
South Carolina 796
Louisiana 815
Arkansas 457
Alabama 968
Mississippi 307
West Virginia 214

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

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 averages are for the top 2 schools 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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