2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Photography in the Far Western US Region

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 “Best Value Photography Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Photography is the 291st most popular major in the country with 2,438 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 485 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 109 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality photography programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the photography program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Photography Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree photography students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Photography in the Far Western US Region

#1

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$34,145 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Photography Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized school located in San Francisco, California that handed out 19 associates’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.

Academy of Art University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Photography Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Academy of Art University is $34,145 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Photography students.

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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