2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s

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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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design

#1

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$33,167 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. RIT is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 10 bachelors’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at RIT, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend RIT is $33,167 for bachelor’s degree prepress/desktop publishing students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design at RIT

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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