2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in California

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 California” 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 California, there were 432 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,900 and $38,004 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent instructional media design programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in California

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

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in California

#1

Pepperdine University

Malibu, California

#1 in overall quality

$36,320 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$71,015 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pepperdine University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in California. Located in Malibu, California, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified doctorate’s instructional media students in 2019-2020.

Pepperdine also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Pepperdine University are $36,320, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Pepperdine University

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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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