2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Media Arts is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 10,069 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,977 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in media arts. That schools that top this list have a program in media arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree interactive multimedia students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts in the Great Lakes Region

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Great Lakes Region. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s interactive multimedia degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Media Arts at Northwestern

2

Kent State University at Kent
Kent, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kent State University at Kent landed the #2 spot on the list. Kent State University at Kent is a large school located in Kent, Ohio that handed out 2 doctorate’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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