2025 Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
6Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
283Film 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 looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 283 degrees in film/cinema/media studies to qualified students.
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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Film/Cinema/Media Studies in the Rocky Mountains 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.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Film Studies
Any student pursuing a degree in film/cinema/media studies needs to look into University of Utah. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City. A Best Colleges rank of #213 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U of U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 120 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in film/cinema/media studies has to take a look at Brigham Young University - Provo. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 48 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Colorado Boulder if you want to pursue a degree in film/cinema/media studies. CU - Boulder is a very large public university located in the city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were approximately 77 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent data year.
University of Denver is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 17 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent year we have data available.
U of I is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Moscow. This university ranks 2nd out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were about 7 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Boise, Boise State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 10 colleges for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were roughly 8 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at Boise State 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.
