2024 Best Media Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
211Master'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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for media arts students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 211 master's degrees in media arts to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Media Arts School for Your Master's Degree
The interactive multimedia master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality interactive multimedia program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to media arts students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other media arts students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized media arts related body.
Our complete 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.
The interactive multimedia school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Media Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
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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.
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).