2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 203 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 46 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Southwest Region

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,272 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Houston Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Houston Community College is a large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 32 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

Houston Community College also made our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Houston Community College is $5,272 for southwest 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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