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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Illinois” ranking.
In 2021-2022, 10,483 people earned their degree in media arts, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States.
Across Illinois, there were 782 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 481 media arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,827 and $47,424 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in media arts. That schools that top this list have a program in media arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree interactive multimedia students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 431 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Illinois list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 38 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interactive Multimedia Major in Illinois. University of Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 12 masters’s interactive multimedia degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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