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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 2,692 people earned their degree in game and interactive media design, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 248 game and interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 game and interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 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 and interactive media design. That schools that top this list have a program in game and 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 20 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at Carnegie Mellon University
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. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s game and interactive media design degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s game and interactive media design students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Game & Interactive Media Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, LIU Post landed the #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Brookville, New York, and it awarded 0 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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.
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