2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,054 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,167 and $27,886 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great instructional media design programs and 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 instructional media design program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree instructional media students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Essex County College

Newark, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$11,636 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Essex County College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s instructional media students in 2019-2020.

Essex did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Essex is $11,636 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Instructional Media students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Essex

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design (Income $30-$48k)

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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