2023 Most Popular 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 “Most Well Attended Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in instructional media design. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in instructional media design.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pepperdine University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region for a Doctorate list. This fairly large school is located in Malibu, California, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Pepperdine

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 Most Well Attended Instructional Media Major in the Far Western US Region for a Doctorate list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 4 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at UH Manoa

• Most Popular 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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