2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Far Western US Region

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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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in instructional media design. That schools that top this list have a program in instructional media design in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree instructional media students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Far Western US Region

1

Pepperdine University
Malibu, California

Top 25% overall quality in Far Western US

$74,008 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pepperdine University landed the #1 spot on the list. Malibu, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s instructional media degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Pepperdine University Instructional Media Design Report

2

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Instructional Media Design Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

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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