Educational/Instructional Media Design Bachelor’s degree
15 programs — 3 with federal cost data, the rest suppressed for small class sizes and listed after them, ordered by median debt against median earnings — lowest first.
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Hide for-profit colleges(2 programs)What our data shows about for-profit collegesAcross the creative fields on this site, students at private for-profit institutions borrow 27% more than students at public ones ($29,332 against $23,033) and earn 15% less four years after completing ($38,361 against $45,110).The combined effect is severe. Median debt at a for-profit equals 70% of a graduate’s annual earnings, against 47% at a public institution. And 10% of for-profit programs leave graduates owing more than they earn in a year — against 1% of public ones. Ten times the rate.This is a pattern across 212 for-profit programs, not a handful of outliers, and it holds in every creative field we cover. It does not mean no for-profit program is worth taking: some appear high in our best-value rankings, and this filter hides those too. It means the odds are materially worse, and the burden of proof sits with the school.Figures are medians computed from the College Scorecard and IPEDS data behind every table on this site.
| Institution | Programcredential and delivery | at completion | 4 yrs after | Median federal loan debt at completion, divided by median earnings four years later. It answers a single question: how much of one year’s income do you owe on the day you finish?Below 50% is generally considered manageable. Above 100% means graduates owe more than they earn in a year, and repayment on a standard ten-year plan starts to consume a serious share of income.Debt covers federal loans only, so real ratios are often worse. Both figures are medians — half of graduates fall on the wrong side of each. |
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| Ashford UniversityCA · Private for-profitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Hybrid | $28,109 | $68,414 | 41% |
| Asbury UniversityKY · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Fully online | $28,812 | — | — |
| Mississippi State UniversityMS · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | $25,716 | — | — |
| Academy of Art UniversityCA · Private for-profitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · HybridOffers: Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media (BFA) · Music Scoring and Composition (BFA) · Game Development (BFA) · Animation and Visual Effects (BFA) · Graphic Design (BFA) · Illustration (BFA) · Visual Development (BFA) | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Bethany CollegeKS · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Drury UniversityMO · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Kennesaw State UniversityGA · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| La Salle UniversityPA · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| University of Michigan-DearbornMI · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| University of New Mexico-Main CampusNM · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| University of West FloridaFL · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Hybrid | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Utah State UniversityUT · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Wayne State UniversityMI · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · On campus | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Western Illinois UniversityIL · PublicRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Wilmington UniversityDE · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Educational/Instructional TechnologyBachelor’s degree · Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | — |
Source: College Scorecard, Field of Study (retrieved September 2026)
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Earnings and debt are reported by the federal government at a four-digit program level, so a figure shown against “Educational/Instructional Media Design” covers every related program at that institution rather than one named degree. Full methodology.