2025 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Missouri
4Colleges in Missouri
154Film Degrees Awarded
$25,982Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in film, video & photographic arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #62 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for film, video & photographic arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 154 degrees in film, video & photographic arts annually.
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Choosing a Great Film, Video & Photographic Arts School
Your choice of film, video & photographic arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Film, Video & Photographic Arts Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Missouri ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Take the first step toward a career of visual expression and doing what you love with this online associate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Learn to create a striking portfolio and hone the skills you need to succeed in the world of professional photography with this online digital photography degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Best Schools for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Missouri
The schools below may not offer all types of film degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in film, video & photographic arts has to look into Washington University in St Louis. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 16 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Webster University if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, Webster is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 6th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 37 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the film program state that they receive average early career earnings of $19,071.
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It is hard to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Mizzou is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were about 32 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent data year. Those film, video & photographic arts students who get their degree from University of Missouri - Columbia make $3,631 more than the average film graduate.
It is difficult to beat Missouri State University - Springfield if you wish to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the medium-sized city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 24 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of film, video & photographic arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
