Bachelor's · Savannah, Georgia
Is Radio, Television, and Digital Communication at Savannah College of Art and Design worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 9.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $51,422
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $68,825
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,156
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $213k (likely $213k – $272k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in GA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.3 years (likely 8.3–11.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$119k (likely −$228k – −$71k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $270k (likely $136k – $401k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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🎬 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward media & storytelling majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
IB Higher Level
- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
- Film HL
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Other majors at Savannah College of Art and Design
- Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services (Bachelor's)$128,600
- Human Computer Interaction (Bachelor's)$113,397
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$103,650
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication (Master's)$81,814
- Architectural Sciences and Technology (Master's)$77,917
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies (Master's)$66,625
- Design and Applied Arts (Master's)$65,866
- Architectural Sciences and Technology (Bachelor's)$64,052
- Historic Preservation and Conservation (Master's)$61,169
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians (Master's)$56,591
- Apparel and Textiles (Bachelor's)$55,925
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$54,845
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication at other schools in Georgia
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus$99,915
- Georgia Southern University$51,581
- Kennesaw State University$47,723
- University of Georgia$45,555
- University of North Georgia$37,608
- Clark Atlanta University$34,335