2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major” 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.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 77 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in instructional media design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their instructional media design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree instructional media students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

1

Essex County College
Newark, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Essex County College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major list. Essex County College is a medium-sized public school situated in Newark, New Jersey. It awarded 10 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Essex

2

Lone Star College System
The Woodlands, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in United States

$26,870 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lone Star College System. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major list. This large school is located in The Woodlands, Texas, and it awarded 66 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lone Star College System Instructional Media Design Report

3

Rio Salado College
Tempe, Arizona

Top 15% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rio Salado College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 1 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Rio Salado College

4

Warren County Community College
Washington, New Jersey

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Warren County Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Washington, New Jersey, this small public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Warren County Community College

4

Bayamon Central University
Bayamón, <nil>

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bayamon Central University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major. Bayamon Central University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bayamón, . It awarded 0 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Bayamon Central University Instructional Media Design Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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