2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 764 animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Great Lakes Region

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DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region list. DePaul is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full DePaul University Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Report

2

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#15 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Columbus, Ohio, and it awarded 8 masters’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects at Ohio State

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Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ball State is a fairly large public school situated in Muncie, Indiana. It awarded 0 masters’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects at Ball State

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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