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2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$20,098 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,688 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate School for You

Instructional Media Design is the #90 most popular major in the country with 8,695 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for instructional media students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region

Check out the instructional media graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Far Western US Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Instructional Media Design

#1

Brandman University

Irvine, CA

Our 2023 rankings named Brandman University the best value school in the Far Western US Region for instructional media design students working on their graduate certificate. Brandman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Irvine.

Brandman graduate students pay an average of $12,720 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Brandman also is in the top 15% of our Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Brandman University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend California State University - San Bernardino. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the city of San Bernardino, CSUSB is a public school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at CSUSB are $18,151 per year.

Full Instructional Media Design at California State University - San Bernardino Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region list. WWU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Bellingham.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WWU are $24,737 a year.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Western Washington University

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Alaska Southeast helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value instructional media design schools in the Far Western US Region . UAS is a small public school located in the town of Juneau.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UAS are $24,783 a year.

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Best Instructional Media Design Colleges by State

Explore the best instructional media design colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 477
Washington 13
Oregon 0
Hawaii 25
Alaska 7

One of 14 majors within the area of study, instructional media design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Instructional Media

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
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General Education 29,810

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Antanana.

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