2022 Best Value Audiovisual Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

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 Audiovisual Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Audiovisual Communications is the 145th most popular major in the country with 6,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, audiovisual communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $22,392 and had an average of $24,925 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,339 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,279 and $31,011 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 audiovisual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality audiovisual communications programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the audiovisual communications 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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Best Value Audiovisual Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree audiovisual students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$27,688 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Academy of Art University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Audiovisual Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in San Francisco, California, this medium-sized private for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified masters’s audiovisual students in 2019-2020.

Academy of Art University also made our “Best Audiovisual Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Academy of Art University are $27,688, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Audiovisual Communications at Academy of Art University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Audiovisual Communications (Income $30-$48k)

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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