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2025 Best Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

3 Colleges in Pennsylvania
69 Bachelor's Degrees
Photography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #225 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. 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 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for photography students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 69 bachelor's degrees in photography during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Photography School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Best Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania The photography bachelor'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 bachelor'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 include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection 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.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for photography students working on their bachelor's degree.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Photography in Pennsylvania

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in photography.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Bachelor's in Photography

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Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
13 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Temple University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in photography. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from Temple University

2
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Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
14 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in photography needs to take a look at Drexel University. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from Drexel University

3
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The University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
9 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in photography has to take a look at The University of the Arts. UArts is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from The University of the Arts

Best Photography Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Photography Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Colleges Degrees Awarded
New York 707 299
Maryland 370 12
District of Columbia 226 1
Delaware 224 0

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One of 4 majors within the Film, Video & Photographic Arts area of study, Photography has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Photography

Related Major Annual Graduates
Film & Video Production 300
Film/Cinema/Media Studies 102
Other Film/Video & Photographic Arts 46

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