2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Film/Cinema/Media Studies is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 5,479 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 191 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree film studies students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 85 bachelors’s film studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UNM Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mary Hardin - Baylor. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Mary Hardin - Baylor is a small school located in Belton, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Film/Cinema/Media Studies at University of Mary Hardin - Baylor
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 57 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Film/Cinema/Media Studies at University of Arizona
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Tulsa. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s film studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Tulsa Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region. University of Oklahoma is a large public school situated in Norman, Oklahoma. It awarded 15 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read more about Film/Cinema/Media Studies at University of Oklahoma
With a ranking of #6, Houston Baptist University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. HBU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full HBU Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report
Southern Methodist University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s film studies degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Southern Methodist University Film/Cinema/Media Studies 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).
- 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.
- 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.
