2024 Best Commercial Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
19Bachelor's Degrees
Commercial Photography isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #604 in popularity out of 1232 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for commercial photography students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 19 bachelor's degrees in commercial photography during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Commercial Photography School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The commercial photography bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to commercial photography students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other commercial photography students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized commercial photography related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for commercial photography students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Commercial Photography Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Commercial Photography in the Southwest Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for commercial photography students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Commercial Photography
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.