8
Colleges in the Far Western US Region
246
Master's Degrees
Media Arts is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #79 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 8 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Media Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 246 master's degrees in media arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of media arts for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 media arts students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of media arts students who choose to seek a master's 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized media arts related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for media arts students working on their master's 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 Media Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Media Arts Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.