2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts is the 380th most popular major in the country with 1,337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 other film/video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in other film/video and photographic arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other film/video and photographic arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other film/video and photographic arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree other film/video & photographic arts students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts (With Aid)

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

$30,160 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Columbia, South Carolina, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s other film/video and photographic arts students in 2019-2020.

UofSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UofSC are $30,160, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of South Carolina - Columbia Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Report

#2

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Boston, Massachusetts

#3 in overall quality

$24,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other film/video and photographic arts degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design also took the #3 spot in our “Best Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Massachusetts College of Art and Design are $24,000, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

#3

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

#2 in overall quality

$50,505 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rochester. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s other film/video and photographic arts students in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rochester are $50,505.

Read full report on Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts at University of Rochester

#4

School of Visual Arts

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$48,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, School of Visual Arts landed the #4 spot on the list. School of Visual Arts is a small private for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 18 masters’s other film/video and photographic arts degrees in 2019-2020.

SVA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SVA are $48,600.

Full SVA Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts Report

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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