2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects is the 166th most popular major in the country with 5,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 448 animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Lakewood, Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. RMCAD is a small school located in Lakewood, Colorado that handed out 36 bachelors’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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2

Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Mesa University landed the #2 spot on the list. Grand Junction, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Colorado Mesa Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Report

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University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. U of I is a fairly large school located in Moscow, Idaho that handed out 24 bachelors’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.

Read full report on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects at University of Idaho

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Provo, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees to 32 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects at Brigham Young University - Provo

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

• *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.

Credits

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