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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 the Far Western US region, there were 535 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,557 and $32,156 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree instructional media students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in San Francisco, California, this medium-sized private for-profit school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Academy of Art University Instructional Media Design Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Oregon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Western Oregon State College is a small public school situated in Monmouth, Oregon. It awarded 0 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Western Oregon University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Chico. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Chico, California, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full California State University - Chico 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
- *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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