2025 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Texas
4Colleges in Texas
264Film Degrees Awarded
$25,982Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in film, video & photographic arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #62 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Texas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 264 degrees in film, video & photographic arts annually.
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Choosing a Great Film, Video & Photographic Arts School
Your choice of film, video & photographic arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Film, Video & Photographic Arts Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Texas ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Take the first step toward a career of visual expression and doing what you love with this online associate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Learn to create a striking portfolio and hone the skills you need to succeed in the world of professional photography with this online digital photography degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Best Schools for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Texas
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the film degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Southern Methodist University if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the large suburb of Dallas, SMU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #142 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means SMU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at SMU in the most recent data year.
Baylor University is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Baylor is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Waco. A Best Colleges rank of #150 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Baylor is a great university overall.
There were roughly 40 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Baylor in the most recent year we have data available.
Take the first step toward a career of visual expression and doing what you love with this online associate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
It is hard to beat Texas State University if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the small city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 16th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 19 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Texas State in the most recent year we have data available. Those film, video & photographic arts students who get their degree from Texas State University make $7,628 more than the typical film student.
It's difficult to beat University of Houston if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 18 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at UH in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of film, video & photographic arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
