2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects is the 177th most popular major in the country with 5,238 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 584 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects programs that also have a lower cost than 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 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Southwest Region

#1

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. SMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 30 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SMU are $47,478.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects

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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