Ranked #32 in popularity,
instructional media design is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 34 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for instructional media design students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,053 master's degrees in instructional media design to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of instructional media design for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality instructional media program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on instructional media design students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of instructional media design students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt instructional media design students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Instructional Media Design Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Instructional Media Design Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
