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Ranked Colleges
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,353 people earned their degree in game & interactive media design, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 150 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in game & interactive media design. That schools that top this list have a program in game & interactive media design in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New England Tech is a small private not-for-profit school situated in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It awarded 18 associates’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at New England Institute of Technology
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Manchester, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s game and interactive media design degrees to 11 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at MCC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Quinsigamond Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the New England Region list. Quinsigamond Community College is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 12 associates’s game and interactive media design degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at Quinsigamond Community College
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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.
