2025 Best Documentary Production Bachelor's Degree Schools

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in documentary production, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #908 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for documentary production students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 bachelor's degrees in documentary production during the <nil> academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on documentary production students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of documentary production students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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 documentary production related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for documentary production students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Documentary Production 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 Documentary Production Bachelor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Documentary Production in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in documentary production.

Top Schools for a Bachelor's in Documentary Production

1

Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY

9 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in documentary production has to take a look at Ithaca College. Located in the suburb of Ithaca, Ithaca is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in documentary production from Ithaca College

2

Dixie State University
Saint George, UT

14 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in documentary production has to check out Dixie State University. Dixie State College is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Saint George.More information about a bachelor’s in documentary production from Dixie State University

Documentary Production by Region

View the Best Documentary Production Bachelor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

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Rocky Mountains
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Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
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Rankings in Majors Related to Documentary Production

One of 4 majors within the Film, Video & Photographic Arts area of study, Documentary Production has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Documentary Production

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Film & Video Production	5,517
Film/Cinema/Media Studies	4,687
Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts	1,267
Photography	1,159

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.