2022 Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 9,028 people earned their degree in media arts, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,645 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 55 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in media arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great media arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the media arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree interactive multimedia students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Media Arts in the Southeast Region

#1

Bob Jones University

Greenville, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$12,923 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Greenville, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s interactive multimedia degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bob Jones University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Media Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $12,923 for southeast region associate degree interactive multimedia students per year to attend Bob Jones University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Bob Jones University Media Arts Report

#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$37,841 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s interactive multimedia students in 2019-2020.

Tulane also made our “Best Media Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Tulane University of Louisiana is $37,841 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Interactive Multimedia students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Media Arts at Tulane

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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