2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design is the 625th most popular major in the country with 898 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 126 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 62 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design programs and cost less that 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 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Green Bay, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$9,201 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Green Bay, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to 32 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NWTC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $9,201 for great lakes region associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend NWTC.

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#2

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$6,762 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Illinois College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. SWIC is located in Belleville, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to qualified students.

SWIC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SWIC is $6,762 for great lakes region associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students whose families make $30-$48k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $30-$48k)

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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