2022 Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 843 people earned their degree in intermedia/multimedia, making the major the 442nd most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 16 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 intermedia/multimedia graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in intermedia/multimedia. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great intermedia/multimedia programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the intermedia/multimedia program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Intermedia/Multimedia in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$15,880 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. UIUC is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 12 bachelors’s intermedia/multimedia degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $15,880 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students with aid per year to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Intermedia/Multimedia at UIUC

#2

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$31,099 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Intermedia/Multimedia Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid. Columbia College Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Intermedia/Multimedia Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $31,099 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Intermedia/Multimedia students with aid per year to attend Columbia.

Read full report on Intermedia/Multimedia at Columbia

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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

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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