Communication & Media Studies is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #24 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in Ohio ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 57 associate degrees in communication & media studies to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communication & media studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of communication & media studies students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt communication & media studies students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication & media studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication & media studies students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communication & Media Studies Associate Degree Schools in Ohio list to help you make the college decision.
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Sinclair Community College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in communication & media studies. Sinclair Community College is a fairly large public college located in the city of Dayton.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the communications program make about $32,284 in the first couple years of their career.
University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in communication & media studies. UC Blue Ash College is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Blue Ash.
Those communication & media studies students who get their associate degree from University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College receive $2,161 more than the typical communications graduate.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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