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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

8 Ranked Colleges
83 Degrees Awarded
$15,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor's

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

Instructional Media Design is the 113th most popular major in the country with 7,710 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,602 and had an average of $31,700 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 83 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in instructional media design. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great instructional media design programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the instructional media 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 Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree instructional media students.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

#2

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s. Mississippi State is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 25 bachelors’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.

Mississippi State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mississippi State is $16,173 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full Mississippi State University Instructional Media Design Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s list. University of Michigan - Dearborn is a medium-sized school located in Dearborn, Michigan that handed out 6 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

UM Dearborn also took the #4 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $11,473 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students per year to attend University of Michigan - Dearborn.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at UM Dearborn

#4

Asbury University

Wilmore, Kentucky
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Asbury University landed the #4 spot on the list. Asbury is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wilmore, Kentucky. It awarded 14 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

Asbury also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Asbury is $27,631 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Asbury

#5

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 6 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNM, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $14,446 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students per year to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

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#6

Cameron University

Lawton, Oklahoma

With a ranking of #6, Cameron University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Cameron University is a small public school situated in Lawton, Oklahoma. It awarded 2 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree instructional media students list, Cameron University has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Cameron University is $7,952 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Cameron University

#7

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

Wayne State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #7. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree instructional media students list, Wayne State has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Wayne State is $13,965 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Wayne State

#8 in overall quality

Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies is a private not-for-profit institution located in Springfield, Missouri. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Drury University - CCPS not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies is $13,233 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Drury University - CCPS

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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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