Instructional Media Design is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #32 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 87 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of instructional media design. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 6,792 master's degrees in instructional media design during the <nil> academic year.
Choosing a Great Instructional Media Design School for Your Master's Degree
The instructional media master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 instructional media design students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other instructional media design students want to attend this school to pursue a master's 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for instructional media design to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized instructional media design related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for instructional media design students working on their master's degree.
The instructional media school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Instructional Media Design Master's Degree Schools.
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Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Instructional Media Design in the United States
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for instructional media design students seeking a a master's degree. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
17 Top Schools for a Master's in Instructional Media
University of Georgia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in instructional media design. Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the instructional media program earn an average of $65,188 for their early career.
Concordia University, Chicago is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of River Forest.
Instructional Media Design master's degree recipients from Concordia University, Chicago receive an earnings boost of around $5,323 above the average earnings of instructional media design majors.
BYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo.
Instructional Media Design master's degree recipients from Brigham Young University - Provo get an earnings boost of about $11,689 over the typical income of instructional media design majors.
Located in the city of Logan, USU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Instructional Media Design master's degree recipients from Utah State University get an earnings boost of about $6,415 over the typical earnings of instructional media design graduates.
Rest of the Top Best Instructional Media Design Master's Degree Schools
Additional Noteworthy Schools
Here are some additional great schools for Instructional Media Design students that almost earned our Best Instructional Media Design Master's Degree Schools award.
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).