2025 Best Film & Video Production Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
341Cinematography Degrees Awarded
Film & Video Production is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #117 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of film & video production. Combined, these schools handed out 341 degrees in film & video production to qualified students.
The cinematography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Film & Video Production rankings. For our Best Overall Film & Video Production School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Film & Video Production Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Film & Video Production in Illinois
The schools below may not offer all types of cinematography degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Columbia College Chicago is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in film & video production. Located in the city of Chicago, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population. This college ranks 9th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 111 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat DePaul University if you want to pursue a degree in film & video production. Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #135 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means DePaul is a great university overall.
There were about 198 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at DePaul in the most recent year we have data available.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in film & video production. SIUC is a fairly large public university located in the town of Carbondale. This university ranks 36th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 26 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent data year.
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).
The cinematography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Film & Video Production rankings. For our Best Overall Film & Video Production School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
