2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Film/Cinema/Media Studies is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 5,191 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 941 film / cinema / media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 605 film / cinema / media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 13 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in film / cinema / media studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality film / cinema / media studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the film / cinema / media studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying film studies.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a large public school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 5 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
UofSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 35,470 students enrolled at UofSC, 1,609 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 651 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,453. In addition to receiving other benefits, 33 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UofSC]](/colleges/university-of-south-carolina-columbia/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s. Georgia State University is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 235 bachelors’s film studies degrees to qualified students.
Georgia State also took the #7 spot in our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Among the 36,360 students enrolled at Georgia State, 1,873 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 662 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,934. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Georgia State University]](/colleges/georgia-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s film studies degrees to qualified students.
Clemson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 922 of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson were GI Bill® students, of which 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. During this same period, 15 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Clemson University Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #4 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s. UGA is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 39,147 students enrolled at University of Georgia, 9 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,402. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tampa. The school came in at #5 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Tampa, Florida, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
UT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 9,605 students enrolled at UT, 526 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 345 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,049. During this same period, 77 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Lipscomb University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking. Lipscomb is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 10 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Lipscomb also made our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #9.According to our most recent data, Lipscomb University supports 4,884 students, and 235 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 184 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,878. During this same period, 72 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Lipscomb University]](/colleges/lipscomb-university/student-life/veterans/)
Tulane University of Louisiana did quite well in the 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #7. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Tulane not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 13,927 students enrolled at Tulane were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,227. To help with additional expenses, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Tulane University of Louisiana Veteran Student Life Report
University of Louisiana at Lafayette ranked #8 on this year’s Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s list. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a fairly large school located in Lafayette, Louisiana that handed out 19 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
UL Lafayette did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #10 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.According to our most recent data, University of Louisiana at Lafayette supports 16,450 students, and 604 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 224 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,336. On top of their other funding sources, 4 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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Full Sail University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking. Full Sail University is located in Winter Park, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 164 bachelors’s film studies degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Full Sail University, the school also landed the #11 spot in our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 4,199 of the 24,627 students enrolled at Full Sail University were GI Bill® students, of which 3,206 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,240. On top of their other funding sources, 604 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
Full Full Sail University Veteran Student Life Report
Jacksonville University did quite well in the 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #10. Located in Jacksonville, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s film studies students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at JU, the school also landed the #12 spot in our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Jacksonville University supports 4,053 students, and 459 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 327 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $16,339. To help with additional expenses, 115 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Jacksonville University]](/colleges/jacksonville-university/student-life/veterans/)
With a ranking of #11, Vanderbilt University did quite well on the 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s film studies students in 2020-2021.
Vanderbilt also took the #2 spot in our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 13,537 students enrolled at Vanderbilt University, 13 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,769. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Vanderbilt University]](/colleges/vanderbilt-university/student-life/veterans/)
Emory University came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking. Atlanta, Georgia 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 31 students in 2020-2021.
Emory did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Of the 13,997 students enrolled at Emory University, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Emory University]](/colleges/emory-university/student-life/veterans/)
Belhaven University landed the #13 spot on the 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Film Studies for a Bachelor’s ranking. Belhaven University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jackson, Mississippi. It awarded 3 bachelors’s film studies degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Belhaven, the school also landed the #13 spot in our “Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 4,999 students enrolled at Belhaven, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,805. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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