2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Illinois, there were 16 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in intermedia/multimedia. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent intermedia/multimedia programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree intermedia/multimedia students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia in Illinois

#1

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 #1 on our 2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees to qualified students.

UIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $15,880 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students per year to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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 more about Intermedia/Multimedia at UIUC

#2

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$31,099 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. Columbia College Chicago is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 4 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $31,099 for illinois bachelor’s degree intermedia/multimedia students per year to attend Columbia.

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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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