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2022 Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

6 Ranked Colleges
177 Degrees Awarded
$9,625 Avg Student Debt
Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,089 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,081 and $27,676 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 177 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in film, video and photographic arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent film, video and photographic arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the film, video and photographic arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s film degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

CNM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for CNM is $5,676 for southwest region associate degree film students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#2

Pima Community College

Tucson, Arizona
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pima Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Pima Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 23 associates’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Pima County Community College District also took the #6 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Pima County Community College District is $5,659 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Film students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified associates’s film students in 2019-2020.

OSU Institute of Technology did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,415 for southwest region associate degree film students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology.

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#4

Northwest Vista College

San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Vista College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Northwest Vista College is a fairly large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 16 associates’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree film students whose families make $48-$75k list, Northwest Vista College has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $7,596 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Film students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Northwest Vista College.

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#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, The Art Institute of Dallas landed the #5 spot on the list. The Art Institute of Dallas is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 associates’s film degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at The Art Institute of Dallas, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The Art Institute of Dallas is $22,666 for southwest region associate degree film students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#7 in overall quality

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Film Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k ranking. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified associates’s film students in 2019-2020.

KD Conservatory also made our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #7. The yearly cost to attend KD Conservatory is $25,441 for southwest region associate degree film students whose families make $48-$75k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Film, Video & Photographic Arts at KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

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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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