2025 Best Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas

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 Texas 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 45 bachelor's degrees in photography during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to photography students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of photography students who choose to seek a bachelor's 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 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.

More Ways to Rank Photography Schools

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 Texas 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 Texas

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

Top Texas Schools for a Bachelor's in Photography

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

15 Annual Graduates

Texas State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in photography. Located in the small city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from Texas State University

2

University of Houston
Houston, TX

13 Annual Graduates

University of Houston is a great decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in photography. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in photography from University of Houston

Best Photography Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Oklahoma	377	0
Arizona	356	21

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Rankings in Majors Related to Photography

Photography is one of 4 different types of Film, Video & Photographic Arts programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Photography

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Film & Video Production	84
Film/Cinema/Media Studies	15

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.