If you pursue a degree in media arts, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #93 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Media Arts Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 degrees in media arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of media arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Media Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The interactive multimedia school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Media Arts Schools in North Carolina.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the interactive multimedia degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top North Carolina Schools in Interactive Multimedia
Every student who is interested in media arts has to take a look at Elon University. Elon is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize suburb of Elon. This university ranks 5th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 60 media arts students who graduated with this degree at Elon in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill if you want to pursue a degree in media arts. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 13 media arts students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent year we have data available.
North Carolina State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in media arts. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 11 media arts students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of media arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Media Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
