2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” 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.

This year’s “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Green Bay, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$10,340 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 Getting Aid list. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is a fairly large school located in Green Bay, Wisconsin that handed out 32 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

NWTC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $10,340 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students with aid per year to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.

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#2

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$7,098 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Illinois College landed the #2 spot on the list. Belleville, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

SWIC also made our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $7,098 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students with aid per year to attend SWIC.

Read more about Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design at SWIC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (With Aid)

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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