2025 Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
127Film Studies Degrees Awarded
Ranked #142 in popularity, film/cinema/media studies is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of film/cinema/media studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 127 degrees in film/cinema/media studies annually.
The film studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Film/Cinema/Media Studies rankings. We derive our Best Overall Film/Cinema/Media Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Film/Cinema/Media Studies Rankings by Degree Level
The film studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in Pennsylvania.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Film/Cinema/Media Studies in Pennsylvania
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the film studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Pennsylvania is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in film/cinema/media studies. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 6th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 39 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Muhlenberg College if you want to pursue a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the city of Allentown, Muhlenberg is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 17th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 12 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Muhlenberg in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The film studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Film/Cinema/Media Studies rankings. We derive our Best Overall Film/Cinema/Media Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
