2024 Best Commercial Photography Associate Degree Schools
21
Colleges in the United States
338
Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in
commercial photography, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #214 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 21 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for commercial photography students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 338 associate degrees in commercial photography to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Commercial Photography School for Your Associate Degree
The commercial photography associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to commercial photography students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other commercial photography students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized commercial photography related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for commercial photography students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Commercial Photography Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Commercial Photography Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.