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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Instructional Media for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 8,695 people earned their degree in instructional media design, making the major the 98th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,158 and had an average of $29,016 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Jersey, there were 62 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,333 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,217 and $15,066 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality instructional media design programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the instructional media design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Instructional Media for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey associate degree vets studying instructional media.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Instructional Media for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Essex County College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified associates’s instructional media students in 2020-2021.
Essex also took the #1 spot in our “Best Instructional Media Design Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking.According to our most recent data, Essex supports 6,360 students, and 101 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 55 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,652. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Essex offers credit for military training for eligible students.
Full Essex County College Veteran Student Life 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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