2023 Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$43,300
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Documentary Production is the 1106th most popular major in the country with 78 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 documentary production graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in documentary production. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality documentary production programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the documentary production program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 4 Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia College Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia College Chicago is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 5 bachelors’s documentary production degrees in 2020-2021.
Columbia not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.Of the 6,769 students enrolled at Columbia College Chicago, 140 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 98 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,151. On top of their other funding sources, 25 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
Full Columbia Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emerson College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s documentary production degrees in 2020-2021.
Emerson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.Of the 5,115 students enrolled at Emerson College, 100 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 62 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,410. During this same period, 38 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Emerson College Veteran Student Life Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ithaca College landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s documentary production degrees in 2020-2021.
Ithaca not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.Our most recent data shows that 68 of the 5,354 students enrolled at Ithaca College were GI Bill® students, of which 35 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $2,640. In addition to receiving other benefits, 32 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend High Point University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Documentary Production for a Bachelor’s. High Point, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s documentary production degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
High Point did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Documentary Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.Our most recent data shows that 119 of the 5,617 students enrolled at High Point were GI Bill® students, of which 56 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,813. During this same period, 44 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full High Point University Veteran Student Life Report
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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