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2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$9,344 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,697 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Instructional Media Design School for You

Instructional Media Design is the #11 most popular major in Iowa with 11 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Instructional Media Design Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Iowa to see which programs offered the best value experiences for instructional media students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

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

2023 Best Value Instructional Media Design Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Instructional Media Design Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality in Instructional Media Design

$9,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for instructional media design students. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Iowa State are $9,634 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Iowa State is ranked #5 for overall quality for instructional media in Iowa.

Full Instructional Media Design at Iowa State University Report

#2

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA
$9,053 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the # 2 spot on the list. UNI is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Cedar Falls.

UNI undergraduate students pay an average of $9,053 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Instructional Media Design Schools in Iowa list.

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#3

Buena Vista University

Storm Lake, IA
$37,518 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Buena Vista University is a great value for instructional media design students. BVU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Storm Lake.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at BVU are $37,518 per year.

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Best Value Instructional Media Design Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Instructional Media Design Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 208
Kansas 130
Minnesota 248
South Dakota 21
North Dakota 10
Nebraska 11

Instructional Media Design is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Instructional Media Concentrations

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 3 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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