2025 Best Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for photography students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 26 bachelor's degrees in photography to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on photography students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other photography students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 photography related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

The photography 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 Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Photography in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Photography

1

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

11 Annual Graduates

Brigham Young University - Provo is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in photography. Located in the city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from Brigham Young University - Provo

2

Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Lakewood, CO

10 Annual Graduates

Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in photography. RMCAD is a small private for-profit college located in the suburb of Lakewood.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Best Photography Colleges by State

Explore the best photography schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	415	8

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Photography Related Rankings by Major

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/Cinema/Media Studies	317
Film & Video Production	175
Documentary Production	14

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.