Texas contains 30 schools that offer multimedia design programs. The University of Texas at Dallas, the highest-ranking multimedia design school in TX, has a total student population of 15,783 and is the 153rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 30 multimedia design schools in Texas, only 10 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Dallas comes out as the most expensive ($36,482/yr), with College of the Mainland as the lowest recorded at only $3,211/yr.
Multimedia Design students from Texas schools who go on to become multimedia designers, interactive media designers, media designers, digital media designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 28,800 people working as multimedia artists and animators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $62,810. Also, Graphic designers make on average $47,820 per year and there are about 200,870 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Texas alone, there are 10,850 employed graphic designers earning an average yearly salary of $44,350. Multimedia artists and animators in this state earn $55,400/yr and there are 2,010 employed.
Also, within the multimedia design schools in Texas, the average student population is 3,703 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from multimedia design, there are 11086 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,493 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,572, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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