2024 Best Film/Cinema/Media Studies Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
143Film Studies Degrees Awarded
Film/Cinema/Media Studies is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #142 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for film/cinema/media studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 143 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for film/cinema/media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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 Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of film studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Arizona is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #133 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Arizona is a great university overall.
There were roughly 56 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent data year.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a great option for students interested in a degree in film/cinema/media studies. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 32 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 21 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at University of Oklahoma in the most recent year we have data available.
University of New Mexico - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in film/cinema/media studies. UNM is a very large public university located in the city of Albuquerque. This university ranks 1st out of 23 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were roughly 52 film/cinema/media studies students who graduated with this degree at UNM 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).
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Your choice of film/cinema/media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for film/cinema/media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
