2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 474 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,833 and $36,789 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality instructional media design programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree instructional media students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Far Western US Region

#1

Pepperdine University

Malibu, California

#1 in overall quality

$36,320 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$71,015 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pepperdine University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Malibu, California, and it awarded 11 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

Pepperdine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Pepperdine are $36,320, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Pepperdine

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$34,550 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Hawaii at Manoa are $34,550, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UH Manoa Instructional Media Design Report

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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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