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2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

8 Ranked Colleges
83 Degrees Awarded
$13,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

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 a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 7,710 people earned their degree in instructional media design, making the major the 113th most popular in the United States. 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 83 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 8 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the instructional media design program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $0-$30k)

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. UM Dearborn is a medium-sized school located in Dearborn, Michigan that handed out 6 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UM Dearborn, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Michigan - Dearborn is $6,751 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UM Dearborn Instructional Media Design Report

#2

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s instructional media degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi State University is $13,986 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Mississippi State University

#3

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.

Wayne State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Wayne State is $11,413 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Wayne State

#4

Cameron University

Lawton, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cameron University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. This small school is located in Lawton, Oklahoma, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cameron University, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $6,652 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Cameron University.

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#5

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s instructional media students in 2019-2020.

UNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UNM is $13,242 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at UNM

The University of Arizona Global Campus did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k ranking, coming in at #6. UAGC is a large school located in San Diego, California that handed out 22 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

UAGC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UAGC is $20,283 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at UAGC

#7

Asbury University

Wilmore, Kentucky
#3 in overall quality

Asbury University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k ranking, coming in at #7. Asbury is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wilmore, Kentucky. It awarded 14 bachelors’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

Asbury also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Asbury University is $22,494 for Bachelor’s Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Asbury University

#8 in overall quality

Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies is located in Springfield, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.

Drury University - CCPS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $12,351 for bachelor’s degree instructional media students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies.

Full Drury University - CCPS Instructional Media Design Report

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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