2025 Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in the New England Region
9Colleges in the New England Region
347Film 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 9 schools in the New England Region 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 347 degrees in film/cinema/media studies annually.
Your choice of film/cinema/media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
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Best Schools for Film/Cinema/Media Studies in the New England Region
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.
Tufts University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford. A Best Colleges rank of #39 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Tufts is a great university overall.
There were approximately 30 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent year we have data available.
Dartmouth College is a good decision for students interested in a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Dartmouth is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the town of Hanover. A Best Colleges rank of #12 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Dartmouth is a great college overall.
There were roughly 18 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Dartmouth in the most recent data year.
Connecticut College is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the city of New London, Conn College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #232 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Conn College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 11 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Conn College in the most recent data year.
Smith College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the city of Northampton, Smith is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 21st out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 14 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Smith in the most recent data year.
UHart is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford. This university ranks 12th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 12 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at UHart in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Norton, Wheaton College Massachusetts is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 47th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 30 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Wheaton College Massachusetts in the most recent year we have data available.
Clark is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Worcester. This university ranks 23rd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 8 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Clark in the most recent data year.
UVM is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Burlington. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 16 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at UVM in the most recent data year.
Champlain is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Burlington. A Best Colleges rank of #278 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Champlain is a great college overall.
There were about 21 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Champlain 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).
Your choice of film/cinema/media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
