2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Virginia, there were 96 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,000 and $38,354 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Master’s in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in Virginia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in Virginia

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$8,349 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,595 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in Virginia. Liberty University is a large school located in Lynchburg, Virginia that handed out 38 masters’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Liberty 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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