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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 10,069 people earned their degree in media arts, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 955 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 211 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree interactive multimedia students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona State University - Skysong is a large school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 189 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Skysong Media Arts Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Sam Houston State University is a public institution located in Huntsville, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Media Arts at SHSU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region. UNT is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UNT Media Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s interactive multimedia students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Media Arts at Arizona State University - Tempe
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- 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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