2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 843 people earned their degree in intermedia/multimedia, making the major the 442nd most popular in the United States.

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.

For this year’s “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in intermedia/multimedia. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great intermedia/multimedia programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the intermedia/multimedia program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The intermedia/multimedia school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$17,630 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 #1 for the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Toledo, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

University of Toledo also made our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $17,630 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree intermedia/multimedia students per year to attend University of Toledo.

Read more about Intermedia/Multimedia at University of Toledo

#2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$15,880 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees 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. The yearly cost to attend UIUC is $15,880 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students.

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

Read more about Intermedia/Multimedia at UIUC

#3

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#3 in overall quality

$31,099 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. Columbia College Chicago is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 4 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $31,099 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students per year to attend Columbia College Chicago.

Read full report on Intermedia/Multimedia at Columbia College Chicago

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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.

Credits

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

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