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2021 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in New York

14 Colleges
1,709 Bachelor's Degrees
$35,801 Avg Cost*

Finding the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students

Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in New YorkIn <nil>, 1,709 bachelor's degrees were awarded to film, video & photographic arts students who went to a New York college or university. This makes it the #27 most popular major in the state. This means that 13.8% of the degrees earned in the country were from a school in the state.

For this year's Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in New York ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a bachelor's in film. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent film, video & photographic arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to non-traditional students.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the film, video & photographic arts program at the school, affordability, and presence of non-traditional students. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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2021 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students in New York

Check out the film programs at these schools if you want to see which ones are the best for non-traditional students.

Top 10 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students

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New York University
New York, NY

New York University tops the 2021 list of our schools in New York that are best for non-traditional film, video & photographic arts students. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population. NYU also took the #1 spot in our Best Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in New York rankings.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.8%. There are approximately 21,614 students at NYU that take at least one class online. About 8,829 of the students at NYU are attending part time.

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Rochester Institute of Technology comes in at #2 in this year's ranking. Located in the suburb of Rochester, RIT is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population. RIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in New York list.

About 0.8% of RIT students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 9,961 students take at least one class online at RIT. 1,867 students are part time.

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The New School
New York, NY

The New School comes in at #3 in this year's ranking. Located in the city of New York, New School University is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population. New School University also took the #8 spot in our Best Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in New York rankings.

About 2.1% of New School University students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 5,293 students at New School University that take at least one class online. 1,257 of New School University students are attending part time.

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Pace University - New York earned the #4 spot in our 2021 rankings. Pace University is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.9%. There are approximately 6,120 students at Pace University that take at least one class online. 3,498 students are part time.

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University at Buffalo comes in at #5 in this year's ranking. University at Buffalo is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Buffalo. University at Buffalo also took the #7 spot in our Best Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in New York rankings.

About 1.3% of University at Buffalo students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 16,575 students take at least one class online at University at Buffalo. About 5,053 of the students at University at Buffalo are attending part time.

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Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn College landed the #6 spot in our 2021 best film, video & photographic arts schools for non-traditional students. Brooklyn College is a large public school located in the large city of Brooklyn.

About 1.1% of Brooklyn College students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 9,254 students take at least one class online at Brooklyn College. 5,426 of Brooklyn College students are attending part time.

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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Our rankings recognize Syracuse University as the #7 school in this year's rankings. Located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population. Syracuse not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #9 on our Best Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in New York list.

The student loan default rate at Syracuse is lower than is typical, just 1.1% of students default in three years. Approximately 2,812 students take at least one class online at Syracuse. 3,491 students are part time.

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SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY

SUNY Oswego landed the #8 spot in our 2021 best film, video & photographic arts schools for non-traditional students. SUNY Oswego is a medium-sized public school located in the distant town of Oswego.

About 1.8% of SUNY Oswego students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 2,764 students at SUNY Oswego that take at least one class online. 1,020 of SUNY Oswego students are attending part time.

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Purchase College
Purchase, NY

The #9 spot in this year's ranking belongs to Purchase College. Purchase College is a small public school located in the large suburb of Purchase.

The student loan default rate at Purchase College is lower than is typical, just 2.9% of students default in three years. Approximately 2,516 students take at least one class online at Purchase College. About 308 of the students at Purchase College are attending part time.

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Hunter College
New York, NY

Hunter College comes in at #10 in this year's ranking. Located in the city of New York, Hunter is a public college with a very large student population.

About 1.0% of Hunter students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 14,334 students take at least one class online at Hunter. About 8,678 of the students at Hunter are attending part time.

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Best for Non-Traditional Students Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 521
Maryland 64
New Jersey 160
Delaware 8
District of Columbia 45

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Notes and References

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*Avg Cost is for the top 14 schools only.

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