The main focus area for this major is Film/Cinema/Media Studies. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Film, Video & Photographic Arts is a major offered under the visual and performing arts program of study at Portland State University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in film, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at Portland State University was ranked #236 on College Factual's Best Schools for film list. It is also ranked #3 in Oregon.
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Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at Portland State University paid an average of $608 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $188 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $7,907 | $25,536 |
Fees | $1,641 | $1,641 |
Books and Supplies | $1,200 | $1,200 |
On Campus Room and Board | $13,500 | $13,500 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $3,210 | $3,210 |
Learn more about Portland State University tuition and fees.
One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Film students who received their bachelor’s degree at Portland State University took out an average of $25,000 in student loans. That is 7% lower than the national average of $27,015.
film who receive their bachelor’s degree from Portland State University make an average of $23,262 a year during the early days of their career. That is 3% higher than the national average of $22,656.
Online degrees for the Portland State University film bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Portland State University Online Learning page.
About 48.6% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in film in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 47.6%.
Around 27.0% of film bachelor’s degree recipients at Portland State University in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 35%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 49 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 9 |
Film, Video & Photographic Arts students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Film/Cinema/Media Studies | 74 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Design & Applied Arts | 83 |
Drama & Theater Arts | 22 |
Fine & Studio Arts | 73 |
Music | 24 |
Other Visual Art | 13 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.