2024 Best Film & Video Production Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
48Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in film & video production, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #163 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for film & video production students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 48 master's degrees in film & video production during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Film & Video Production School for Your Master's Degree
The cinematography master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to film & video production students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of film & video production students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized film & video production related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for film & video production students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Film & Video Production Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Film & Video Production in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in film & video production.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Cinematography
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.