2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design is the 625th most popular major in the country with 898 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Washington, there were 34 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 32 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,441 and $15,677 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for washington associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $0-$30k) in Washington

#1

Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$6,213 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Whatcom Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k. Whatcom Community College is a small school located in Bellingham, Washington that handed out 20 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

Whatcom Community College also made our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Whatcom Community College is $6,213 for Washington Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Clover Park Technical College

Lakewood, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$6,253 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Clover Park Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Lakewood, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

CPTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list. The estimated yearly cost for Clover Park Technical College is $6,253 for Washington Associate Degree Prepress/Desktop Publishing students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (Income $0-$30k)

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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