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Overview
Digital Media Institute at InterTech is located in a midsized city with a population at least 100,000, but less than 250,000. It is in the Shreveport-Bossier City LA area.
Highlights
Largest undergraduate program (9): Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects
Institutional Control
Digital Media Institute at InterTech is a private not-for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Digital Media Institute at InterTech holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Council on Occupational Education (Accredited February 22, 2016 - present)
- The next accreditation review was scheduled for December 31, 2022.
Undergraduate Students
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Admissions
Context: Average High School GPA
Digital Media Institute at InterTech did not report the average high school GPA of it's students.
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Admissions Details
Here are some important dates and little tidbits. Please double-check this information on the Digital Media Institute at InterTech's webpage for the most up-to-date and accurate answers! We update this information with each school's annual reporting, but information can change unexpectedly. Select any item to view the details.
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Application Fee & Common App
Percentage of applicants who are accepted
A low percentage here can indicate that a school is highly selective. We think this is one of the least important numbers for you to consider.
Selectivity can be misleading
You may have heard that a high rejection rate is an indicator of a good school. However, this number can be gamed, and some schools started gaming the system to perform better in college ratings books and sites. Ididio believes a combination of good outcomes (e.g. successful graduation rates and loan repayments) along with indicators of a well-prepared student body (e.g. test scores and high school records) are the best indicators of a good academic experience for those who attend. Our advice is that you don't pay too much attention to this number as you decide whether you might be admitted.
Percentage of accepted students who choose to attend
This is called the yield, and it suggests whether this was a first-choice school or a back-up school for most applicants. Even the most prestigious Ivy League schools lose about a third of their accepted students come enrollment time.
Programs
1-2 Year Certificate offerings at Digital Media Institute at InterTech
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Engineering/Design
Quantitative/Technology
Costs
Current Program Costs
Schools report total costs for (up to) their six largest career-oriented programs. You can explore the costs by selecting the "+" symbol for programs that interest you. The average months to complete apply to full-time students. Additionally, if program length is reported in contact hours, then the time literally represents time with an instructor. Alternatively, credit hours approximate instructional time, but are not inclusive of total time spent by students in learning.
The cost details offer you comparisons to the costs of similar programs available in your context group. However, schools offering similar programs often have slightly different times to complete, and therefore we have grouped all programs that are 6 or fewer months, over 6 to 12 months, over 12 to 18 months, and more than 18 months. You can find the other schools offering this program using our school explorer.
You will find the most up-to-date information at this school's website for admissions.
Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects (10 Months)
Specialized Computer Programming (12 Months)
Area living cost estimates
The following cost of living estimates apply to this school's largest program and should reflect the cost for an academic year. We would expect that these costs of living estimates would be uniform across programs, and we additionally recommend that you double-check the estimates through a different source. We found that schools have wildly different estimates of living expenses within the same areas.
Expense type
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus with family
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus without family
Off-campus room and board
Amount
$3,772
$3,772
$8,907
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Historic Costs by Program
You can explore the programs and corresponding lengths and costs offered over the past ten years using the drop-down menu below the graph. The programs only appear if they were one of the six largest programs offered that year. All dollar amounts have been adjusted for inflation.
Program and length
Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects (10 months)
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Outcomes
Graduation Rate
All undergraduate students are full-time. All full-time first-time students received a degree within 150% of the expected time for completion.
Time to complete
On time
50% more time
Context: Graduation rate
These numbers reflect the percentage of full-time first-time college students who completed any degree or certificate within 150% of the expected time.
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Context and trends: Repayment Rate
How much progress do you think you'll be able to make towards paying down your college loans seven years after leaving school? In our research, we discovered that a surprisingly large number of students don't default on their loans, but also aren't making progress in paying down their principal amount. The percentages here count alumni who have decreased their loan amounts by at least $1.
Context and trends: are the loan default rates as small as possible?
The default rate is the percentage of students who are already delinquent on their loans within three years of leaving the school. If a school has a high default rate, that sends an alarm out that the students' educations are not sufficient to earn enough to repay those loans. Read below for details on the typical loan burden, and keep in mind that a low default rate may be more important than loan amounts in predicting your future success.
Loan burden
At Digital Media Institute at InterTech, 100% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans, averaging $7,237 each in just the freshman year. We have much more details about the full loan burden students experience in our Cost and Financial Aid Section.
Context: Percentage of freshmen with federal loans
Context: Average freshman federal loan amount
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Classroom Experience
Student attention at Digital Media Institute at InterTech
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Digital Media Institute at InterTech
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Digital Media Institute at InterTech has 67% full-time instructors, and 66% of the context schools have a lower percentage of full-time faculty. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Digital Media Institute at InterTech, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, only 31% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
Full-time instructors
Long-term instructors
Housing
Activities and Services
Undergraduate services offered
- Employment services for current students
- Placement services for program completers
Programs for Veterans
If you are a veteran, it's worth digging around to find a military-friendly campus. We think this article about how colleges might help veterans might be a good starting point for questions to ask the Admissions office before you choose to attend. It's also good to be aware that many for-profit schools are behaving as predators, hungry for GI Bill dollars. Watching out for those schools is no different for veterans than for all students: judge very critically using our "Student Satisfaction and Success" tab for undergraduate programs. We wish we had the same data to support graduate programs; however, we think the undergraduate data is a good starting point for judging overall quality.
- Dedicated point of contact for support services for veterans, military servicemembers, and their families
Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
Full-time
Online classes
Context: Student body size
Digital Media Institute at InterTech enrolled 39 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than 96% of the context schools.
Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Digital Media Institute at InterTech students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
Women
Undergraduate student race/origin
Digital Media Institute at InterTech reports that 23% of students are minority, which is near the middle of the context schools. Similarly, this school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
Race/Origin
White
Black
Not Reported
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Digital Media Institute at InterTech.
Context: Percentage of women
With 39% women students, Digital Media Institute at InterTech has a lower percentage of women than 89% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Digital Media Institute at InterTech compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
Freshman residences
A high proportion of international and out-of-state students speaks to reputation and offers an opportunity for diverse interactions in and out of class.
Freshman residence
In-state
Out-of-state
International
Not Reported
Student age distribution
The age distribution at a school can tell you a lot about its mission. If you're looking for a traditional undergraduate experience, you may prefer to see students who are mostly younger than 25 (lighter shades), but if you want support as a returning student, a large number of students 25 and older (darker shades) may better suit your needs.
Age range
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40-49
School Finances
Digital Media Institute at InterTech: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?
Digital Media Institute at InterTech is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Digital Media Institute at InterTech into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
Tuition and fees revenue
Private and capital gifts
Educational sales revenue
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Academic support expenses
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