2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Plains States region, there were 230 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 film/cinema/media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree film studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. KU is located in Lawrence, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s film studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Kansas Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 1 masters’s film studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Washington University in St Louis Film/Cinema/Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa City, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s film studies degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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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%.
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- *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.