2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Media Arts (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Media Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 9,028 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,645 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 55 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in media arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent media arts 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 media arts 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree interactive multimedia students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Media Arts (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Bob Jones University

Greenville, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$12,572 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bob Jones University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s interactive multimedia students in 2019-2020.

Bob Jones University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Media Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $12,572 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Interactive Multimedia students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Bob Jones University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Bob Jones University Media Arts Report

#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,168 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s interactive multimedia students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree interactive multimedia students whose families make $48-$75k list, Tulane has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Media Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $26,168 for southeast region associate degree interactive multimedia students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Tulane University of Louisiana.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Media Arts at Tulane University of Louisiana

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Media Arts (Income $48-$75k)

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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