2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 314 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 149 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Far Western US Region

#1

Clover Park Technical College

Lakewood, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$7,904 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clover Park Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region. Clover Park Technical College is a public institution located in Lakewood, Washington. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CPTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for CPTC is $7,904 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students.

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#2

Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$7,683 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Whatcom Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region list. Bellingham, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Whatcom Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Whatcom Community College is $7,683 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students.

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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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