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2022 Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

2 Ranked Colleges
36 Degrees Awarded
$54,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Film Schools for a Master's in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is the 64th most popular major in the country with 17,506 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, film, video and photographic arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $22,714 and had an average of $31,549 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 130 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,850 and $25,076 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in film, video and photographic arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great film, video and photographic arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the film, video and photographic arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree film students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Maryland

#1

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 11 masters’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins are $59,425, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Johns Hopkins University Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maryland Institute College of Art. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k. Maryland Institute College of Art is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 25 masters’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

MICA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Maryland Institute College of Art are $49,190.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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