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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

With 8,695 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, instructional media design is the #8 most popular major in the United States.

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

The Best Value Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. 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

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for instructional media majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

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

#1

Brandman University

Irvine, CA

Our analysis found Brandman University to be the best value school for instructional media design students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Far Western US Region . Brandman is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Irvine.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Brandman are $12,720 per year.

Brandman also took the #2 spot in our Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region rankings.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at Brandman University

Out of the 4 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - San Bernardino landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of San Bernardino, CSUSB is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CSUSB graduate students pay an average of $18,151 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Instructional Media Design at California State University - San Bernardino

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Western Washington University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value instructional media design schools in the Far Western US Region . 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.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, WWU also did well on our Best Instructional Media Design Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Instructional Media Design at Western Washington University Report

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 remote 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
Washington 13
Oregon 0
California 477
Hawaii 25
Alaska 7

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

Instructional Media Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Educational/Instructional Technology 8,695

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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