2023 Most Focused 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 has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 922 people earned their degree in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design, making the major the 662nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 177 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 37 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Southwest Region

1

Houston Community College
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

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 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region. Houston Community College is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

El Centro College
Dallas, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend El Centro College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 16 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus
Gallup, New Mexico

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Gallup, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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3

Central Arizona College
Coolidge, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Arizona College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Prepress/Desktop Publishing Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Coolidge, Arizona, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s prepress/desktop publishing students in 2020-2021.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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