2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Instructional Media Design is the 113th most popular major in the country with 7,710 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,602 and had an average of $31,700 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 873 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,933 and $25,997 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 79 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in instructional media design. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality instructional media 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 instructional media design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Lone Star College System

The Woodlands, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$7,146 Average Net Price

$22,766 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lone Star College System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. The Woodlands, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s instructional media degrees to 78 students in 2019-2020.

North Harris Montgomery also took the #1 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $7,146 for southwest region associate degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend North Harris Montgomery.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at North Harris Montgomery

#2

Cameron University

Lawton, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$6,652 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Cameron University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cameron University is a small public school situated in Lawton, Oklahoma. It awarded 1 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k list, Cameron University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Instructional Media Design Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Cameron University is $6,652 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Cameron University Instructional Media Design Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media 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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