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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 “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California 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 California, there were 396 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 $62,974 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree game and interactive media design students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California for a Master’s list. USC is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 13 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York Film Academy. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California for a Master’s. 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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 California for a Master’s. Laguna College of Art and Design 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Game and Interactive Media Design Major in California for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, National University landed the #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in La Jolla, California, and it awarded 0 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about 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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