2025 Best Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Associate Degree Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
117Associate Degrees
an associate degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #110 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 117 associate degrees in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects School for Your Associate Degree
The animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Associate Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in New York
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics & special effects.
Top New York Schools for an Associate in Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects
Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Related Rankings by Major
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).