Media Arts at Eastern Illinois University

If you plan to study media arts, take a look at what Eastern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Media Arts section at the bottom of this page.

EIU Media Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Multimedia

EIU Media Arts Rankings

The interactive multimedia major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Media Arts. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Interactive Multimedia Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the interactive multimedia majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Media Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of interactive multimedia bachelor's degrees went to men and 38% went to women. The typical interactive multimedia bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 25% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its interactive multimedia bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in interactive multimedia.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Other Radio, Television, & Digital Communication

Careers That Interactive Multimedia Grads May Go Into

A degree in interactive multimedia can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Media and Communication Workers	110	$59,170

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.