Houston, TX (population: 2,307,883) has two multimedia design schools within its city limits. The Art Institute of Houston, the highest ranked school in the city with a multimedia design program, has a total student population of 2,223. It is the 3749th highest ranked school in the USA and the 192nd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about multimedia design programs in Houston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of multimedia design professors at The Art Institute of Houston such as Jonathan Agresta, Clark Ashburn, Lyndon Crowson, Martha Culbreth, Michele Damato, and Arden de Brun.
Multimedia Design students from Houston 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 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 2,620 employed graphic designers earning an average salary of $44,660. Multimedia artists and animators in this area earn $58,060/yr and there are 280 employed.
Houston lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.109 out of every 1000 jobs in Houston are held by multimedia artists and animators, and 1.021/1000 are held by graphic designers.
Of the 2 multimedia design schools in Houston, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Houston comes out as the most expensive ($34,131/yr) for multimedia design students, with University of Phoenix-Houston Westside Campus as the lowest, reported at only $24,225/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Houston |
| South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 11.9 miles |
| Pearland | TX | 94,215 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.0 miles |
| Pasadena | TX | 148,101 | 8 | 24.6579 | 264 | 16.3 miles |
| Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.5 miles |
| Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 25.3 miles |
| League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.7 miles |
| The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 27.6 miles |
| Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 35.9 miles |
| Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 38.3 miles |
| Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 42.2 miles |
| Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 47.7 miles |
| Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 78.1 miles |
| College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 79.5 miles |
| Bryan | TX | 73,832 | 2 | 27.1681 | 5 | 85.5 miles |