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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Other Computer Software & Media Applications is the 416th most popular major in the country with 1,438 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across California, there were 102 other computer software and media applications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 other computer software and media applications graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,974 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other computer software and media applications. That schools that top this list have a program in other computer software and media applications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Academy of Art University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California. Located in San Francisco, California, this medium-sized private for-profit school awarded 24 diplomas to qualified masters’s computer software and media applications students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Academy of Art University Other Computer Software & Media Applications Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Art Center College of Design. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California. Located in Pasadena, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s computer software and media applications students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Art Center College of Design Other Computer Software & Media Applications Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Institute of the Arts. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California list. This small school is located in Valencia, California, and it awarded 1 masters’s computer software and media applications degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Other Computer Software & Media Applications at California Institute of the Arts
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Santa Cruz. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software and Media Applications Major in California list. UC Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 masters’s computer software and media applications degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Other Computer Software & Media Applications at UC Santa Cruz
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- 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
- *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.
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