2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Southwest Region

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Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects is the 166th most popular major in the country with 5,362 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 626 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 59 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major 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 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Southwest Region

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Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees to 53 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 6 masters’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 - Tempe Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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.

Credits

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