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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Instructional Media for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 8,695 people earned their degree in instructional media design, making the major the 98th most popular in the United States. 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 2,263 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,025 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great instructional media design programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the instructional media design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Instructional Media for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree vets studying instructional media.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Instructional Media for a Bachelor’s list. USU is located in Logan, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.
USU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Among the 27,691 students enrolled at USU, 3 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $285. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. USU offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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