2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.
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.
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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree film students whose families make $75-$110k.
Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 3 masters’s film degrees in 2019-2020.
SMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Methodist University are $47,478.
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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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