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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts (Income $75-$110k) in California

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$28,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k

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 Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,028 people earned their degree in media arts, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 299 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great media arts 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 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.

More Ways to Rank Media Arts Schools

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 a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts (Income $75-$110k) in California

#1

University of California - Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Santa Barbara. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k. UCSB is a large public school situated in Santa Barbara, California. It awarded 6 doctorate’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSB did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Media Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UCSB are $28,670.

Full University of California - Santa Barbara Media Arts Report

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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