2025 Best Film & Video Production Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
149Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in film & video production, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #121 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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for film & video production students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 149 associate degrees in film & video production during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Film & Video Production School for Your Associate Degree
The cinematography associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality cinematography program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on film & video production students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of film & video production students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized film & video production related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for film & video production students working on their associate degree.
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 Film & Video Production Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Film & Video Production in the Southwest Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in film & video production.
Top Southwest Region Schools for an Associate 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.