2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Intermedia/Multimedia is the 442nd most popular major in the country with 843 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 41 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in intermedia/multimedia. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality intermedia/multimedia programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the intermedia/multimedia program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree intermedia/multimedia students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$5,477 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

UIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $5,477 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree intermedia/multimedia students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Intermedia/Multimedia at UIUC

#2

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$14,516 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Toledo. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Toledo is a fairly large school located in Toledo, Ohio that handed out 8 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Toledo also took the #2 spot in our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $14,516 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Toledo.

Read more about Intermedia/Multimedia at University of Toledo

#3

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#3 in overall quality

$27,120 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Columbia also took the #3 spot in our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $27,120 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Columbia College Chicago.

Read more about Intermedia/Multimedia at Columbia

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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