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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Game & Interactive Media Design is the 293rd most popular major in the country with 2,692 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 427 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 25 game and interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in game and interactive media design. To top this list, a school must have a successful game and interactive media design program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s game and interactive media design degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Laguna College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s. LCAD is a small school located in Laguna Beach, California that handed out 6 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Film Academy landed the #2 spot on the list. Burbank, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s game and interactive media design degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. La Jolla, California 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 0 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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 full report on Game & Interactive Media Design at National University
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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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