| Ranking | Multimedia / Visual Communications Schools | Location |
| 1 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2 | California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA |
| 3 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| 4 | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI |
| 5 | University of California: Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA |
| 6 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| 7 | University of California: San Diego | La Jolla, CA |
| 8 | Parsons The New School for Design | New York, NY |
| 9 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA |
| 10 | School of Visual Arts | New York, NY |
| 11 | New York University | New York, NY |
| 12 | Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY |
| 13 | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, MD |
| 14 | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY |
| 15 | Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA |