2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in the Plains States Region 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 the Plains States region, there were 229 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree interactive multimedia students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Media Arts in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$25,007 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. KU is located in Lawrence, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees to qualified students.

KU also made our “Best Media Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kansas are $25,007.

Full KU Media Arts Report

#2

Missouri Western State University

Saint Joseph, Missouri

$12,212 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri Western State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Missouri Western is a small public school situated in Saint Joseph, Missouri. It awarded 1 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri Western also made our “Best Media Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Missouri Western State University are $12,212, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Media Arts at Missouri Western

#3

Webster University

Saint Louis, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$13,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Webster University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Interactive Multimedia Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s interactive multimedia degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Webster also took the #2 spot in our “Best Media Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Webster are $13,500.

Read more about Media Arts at Webster University

• Best Value Master’s Degree 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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