2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2021-2022, 5,479 people earned their degree in film/cinema/media studies, making the major the 142nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,055 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 66 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in film/cinema/media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in film/cinema/media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Film/Cinema/Media Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Full Sail University landed the #1 spot on the list. Winter Park, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s film studies degrees to 24 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Film/Cinema/Media Studies at Full Sail University

2

Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, Virginia

Top 5% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Virginia Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Northern Virginia Community College is located in Annandale, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 42 associates’s film studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Northern Virginia Community College Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• 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.