When it comes to popularity, an associate degree in arts & media management sits in the middle of the road, ranking #146 out of 328 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 48 associate degrees in arts & media management to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 arts & media management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of arts & media management 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 easy is it for arts & media management to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized arts & media management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for arts & media management students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Arts & Media Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It's hard to beat Full Sail University if you want to pursue an associate degree in arts & media management. Full Sail University is a very large private for-profit university located in the suburb of Winter Park.
Those arts & media management students who get their associate degree from Full Sail University earn $4,869 more than the average media management grad.
Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in arts & media management needs to look into SAE Institute - Nashville. Located in the city of Nashville, SAE Institute - Nashville is a private for-profit school with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their associate from the media management program report average early career wages of $17,881.
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).
