If you pursue a master's degree in instructional media design, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #32 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for instructional media design students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 2,214 master's degrees in instructional media design to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Instructional Media Design School for Your Master's Degree
The instructional media master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to instructional media design students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other instructional media design students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for instructional media design to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized instructional media design related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for instructional media design students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Instructional Media Design Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Instructional Media Design Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Learn to assess and integrate technology into your school's curriculum and improve students' learning with this specialized online master's from Southern New Hampshire University.
It is difficult to beat Utah State University if you want to pursue a master's degree in instructional media design. Located in the city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the instructional media design major at Utah State University make $3,342 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Western Governors University is a great option for students interested in a master's degree in instructional media design. WGU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Salt Lake City.
Soon after graduation, instructional media master's recipients typically earn an average of $56,253 at the beginning of their careers.
It's difficult to beat Boise State University if you want to pursue a master's degree in instructional media design. Located in the medium-sized city of Boise, Boise State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduating, instructional media master's recipients usually make about $58,454 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The instructional media master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
