3
Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$17,600
Avg Net Price*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Instructional Media Design is the 98th most popular major in the country with 8,695 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,158 and had an average of $29,016 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kentucky, there were 46 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,855 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in instructional media design. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality instructional media design programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the instructional media design program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons 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.
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky. University of Kentucky is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Schools in Kentucky” list. It costs about $18,203 for kentucky instructional media students per year to attend UK.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read more about Instructional Media Design at UK
Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Morehead State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Morehead State University is a medium-sized school located in Morehead, Kentucky that handed out 6 ’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.
Morehead State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Schools in Kentucky” list. The estimated yearly cost for Morehead State University is $12,096 for Kentucky Instructional Media students.
Full Morehead State University Instructional Media Design Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Asbury University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Wilmore, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified ’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Asbury, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Schools in Kentucky” ranking. It costs about $22,376 for kentucky instructional media students per year to attend Asbury University.
Full Asbury University 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
- *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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