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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 220 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 game & interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in game & interactive media design. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in game & interactive media design.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Carnegie Mellon University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at Carnegie Mellon
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. The American University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 3 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full American University Game & Interactive Media Design Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s game and interactive media design students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
Full RPI Game & Interactive Media Design Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LIU Post. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. LIU Post is a fairly large school located in Brookville, New York that handed out 0 masters’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%.
Read full report on Game & Interactive Media Design at LIU Post
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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.
