2022 Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 203 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 46 prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the prepress/desktop publishing and digital imaging design program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,272 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Prepress/Desktop Publishing Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston Community College is a large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 32 associates’s prepress/desktop publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

Houston Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Houston Community College is $5,272 for southwest region associate degree prepress/desktop publishing students with aid.

Read more about Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design at Houston Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Prepress/Desktop Publishing & Digital Imaging Design (With Aid)

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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