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2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
164 Degrees Awarded
$24,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Arts & Media Management is the 137th most popular major in the country with 5,059 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,959 and had an average of $35,302 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 269 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,100 and $36,892 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 164 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in arts and media management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great arts and media management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the arts and media management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Arts & Media Management in Illinois (With Aid)

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s media management degrees to qualified students.

UIC also made our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $13,312 for illinois bachelor’s degree media management students with aid per year to attend University of Illinois at Chicago.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Arts & Media Management at University of Illinois at Chicago

#2

Elmhurst University

Elmhurst, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elmhurst University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid. Elmhurst University is located in Elmhurst, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s media management degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our illinois bachelor’s degree media management students with aid list, Elmhurst has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Elmhurst is $21,485 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Media Management students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Arts & Media Management at Elmhurst University

#3

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Bradley University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Peoria, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 16 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s media management students in 2019-2020.

Bradley also made our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Bradley University is $25,634 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Media Management students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Bradley Arts & Media Management Report

#4

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 106 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s media management students in 2019-2020.

Columbia also took the #3 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $31,099 for illinois bachelor’s degree media management students with aid per year to attend Columbia.

Full Columbia College Chicago Arts & Media Management Report

#5

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Media Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s media management degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

DePaul also made our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $30,090 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Media Management students with aid per year to attend DePaul University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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).
  • 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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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