2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 9,224 people earned their degree in instructional media design, making the major the 98th most popular in the United States. In , instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $55,060 and had an average of $28,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,091 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,529 and $33,531 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 69 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in instructional media design. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in instructional media design.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree instructional media students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Southwest Region

1

Lone Star College System
The Woodlands, Texas

$26,870 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lone Star College System. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region list. North Harris Montgomery is a large public school situated in The Woodlands, Texas. It awarded 69 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at North Harris Montgomery

2

Rio Salado College
Tempe, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rio Salado College landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 0 associates’s instructional media degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Rio Salado College

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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