2025 Best Film & Video Production Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
335Cinematography Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in film & video production, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #117 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of film & video production. Combined, these schools handed out 335 degrees in film & video production to qualified students.
Your choice of film & video production school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Film & Video Production School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The cinematography school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Film & Video Production Schools in Pennsylvania.
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Best Schools for Film & Video Production in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the cinematography degree levels they offer.
It's hard to beat Temple University if you wish to pursue a degree in film & video production. Temple is a very large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #97 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Temple is a great university overall.
There were about 166 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.
Drexel University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in film & video production. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 10th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 34 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in film & video production needs to check out Point Park University. Point Park is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 65th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 39 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Point Park 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).