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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts in Connecticut

4 Ranked Colleges
113 Degrees Awarded
$21,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor's in Connecticut

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Connecticut, there were 212 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 113 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,552 and $24,636 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in media arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent media arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the media arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts in Connecticut

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut. UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 77 bachelors’s interactive multimedia degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCONN, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Media Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Connecticut is $22,012 for connecticut bachelor’s degree interactive multimedia students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full UCONN Media Arts Report

#2

Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, Connecticut
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut. Willimantic, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s interactive multimedia degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

ECSU also made our “Best Media Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $18,618 for connecticut bachelor’s degree interactive multimedia students per year to attend Eastern Connecticut State University.

Full Eastern Connecticut State University Media Arts Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Connecticut State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Western Connecticut State University is a medium-sized school located in Danbury, Connecticut that handed out 6 bachelors’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WestConn, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Media Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Western Connecticut State University is $18,215 for connecticut bachelor’s degree interactive multimedia students.

Read more about Media Arts at Western Connecticut State University

#4

University of Hartford

West Hartford, Connecticut
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hartford. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut. UHart is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in West Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 9 bachelors’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UHart, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Media Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UHart is $28,541 for connecticut bachelor’s degree interactive multimedia students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Media Arts at UHart

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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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