If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in
arts & media management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #104 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 144 bachelor's degrees in arts & media management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of arts & media management for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality media management program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on arts & media management students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of arts & media management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for arts & media management to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized arts & media management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for arts & media management students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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