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Best Value Colleges for Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

Schools Ranked

$28,656

Avg. Earnings

7 yrs

Best Payback

1,100

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY · Private	$31,935	$53,358	7 yrs
2	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA · Private	$37,292	$38,289	45.4 yrs
3	State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY · Public	$17,264	$35,600	115.1 yrs
4	American University Washington, DC · Private	$27,374	$30,771	N/A
5	Bowie State University Bowie, MD · Public	$18,560	$27,048	N/A
6	Webster University Saint Louis, MO · Private	$22,524	$25,194	N/A
7	Husson University Bangor, ME · Private	$17,694	$25,194	N/A
8	New England Institute of Technology East Greenwich, RI · Private	$33,946	$29,685	N/A
9	Rowan University Glassboro, NJ · Public	$27,278	$26,519	N/A
10	St. John's University-New York Queens, NY · Private	$27,080	$27,618	N/A
11	SUNY Buffalo State University Buffalo, NY · Public	$17,154	$28,598	N/A
12	Long Island University Brookville, NY · Private	$24,775	$25,194	N/A
13	Belmont University Nashville, TN · Private	$26,313	$25,709	N/A
14	Columbia College Chicago Chicago, IL · Private	$26,626	$29,113	N/A
15	Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI · Public	$13,230	$30,409	N/A
16	Alabama A & M University Normal, AL · Public	$17,694	$20,102	N/A
17	Towson University Towson, MD · Public	$17,667	$31,840	N/A
18	Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA · Private	$44,631	$21,964	N/A
19	University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Arecibo, PR · Public	$12,865	$10,463	N/A
20	Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA · Private	$24,182	$35,060	N/A

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.