2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Documentary Production in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 78 people earned their degree in documentary production, making the major the 1106th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 18 documentary production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 documentary production graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in documentary production. That schools that top this list have a program in documentary production in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree documentary production students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Documentary Production in the Great Lakes Region

1

Andrews University
Berrien Springs, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Andrews University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s documentary production degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Andrews University Documentary Production Report

2

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s documentary production students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Documentary Production at Columbia

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Documentary Production

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.