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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Media Arts is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 10,483 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Massachusetts, there were 303 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,580 and $115,590 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in media arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their media arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Massachusetts”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 14 doctorate’s interactive multimedia degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Media Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Massachusetts. Boston University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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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