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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Game & Interactive Media Design is the 293rd most popular major in the country with 2,353 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 67 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 8 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas City Art Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region list. Kansas City Art Institute is located in Kansas City, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s game and interactive media design degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bethany College Kansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Lindsborg, Kansas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s game and interactive media design students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drury University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Springfield, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s game and interactive media design students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Webster University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s game and interactive media design students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Webster University Game & Interactive Media Design Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lindenwood University landed the #5 spot on the list. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized school located in Saint Charles, Missouri that handed out 10 bachelors’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Lindenwood University Game & Interactive Media Design Report
Bellevue University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Bellevue University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Bellevue, Nebraska. It awarded 0 bachelors’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Game & Interactive Media Design at Bellevue University
With a ranking of #6, Augsburg University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region list. Augsburg University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Game & Interactive Media Design at Augsburg University
Southwestern College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. SC is a small school located in Winfield, Kansas that handed out 1 bachelors’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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.
