2022 Best Value Colleges for Media Arts in Oregon (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” 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 Oregon, there were 132 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in media arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great media arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the media arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools in Oregon For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Media Arts in Oregon (With Aid)

#1

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$16,461 Average Net Price

$37,360 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools in Oregon For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #1 spot on the list. Eugene, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s interactive multimedia degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our oregon interactive multimedia students with aid list, UO has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Media Arts Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UO is $16,461 for Oregon Interactive Multimedia students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Media Arts at UO

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

$41,303 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools in Oregon For Those Getting Aid. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 99 diplomas to qualified ’s interactive multimedia students in 2019-2020.

Oregon State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Media Arts Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $20,016 for Oregon Interactive Multimedia students with aid per year to attend Oregon State.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Media Arts at Oregon State

• Best Value Colleges for Media Arts in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Media Arts (With Aid)

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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