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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in instructional media design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their instructional media design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s instructional media degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Instructional Media Design at University of North Texas
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Huntsville, Texas, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Instructional Media Design at SHSU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s instructional media degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Phoenix - Arizona Instructional Media Design Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Instructional Media Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 1 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Texas Tech Instructional Media Design Report
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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
- *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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