2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Documentary Production in the Far Western US Region

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Documentary Production is the 1106th most popular major in the country with 78 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 21 documentary production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 documentary production graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in documentary production. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in documentary production.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree documentary production students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Documentary Production in the Far Western US Region

1

New York Film Academy
Burbank, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Film Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Burbank, California, this small private for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s documentary production students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full New York Film Academy Documentary Production Report

2

Chapman University
Orange, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chapman University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Far Western US Region list. Chapman is located in Orange, California and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s documentary production degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, 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.

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3

University of California - Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Santa Cruz. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Documentary Production Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of California - Santa Cruz is a fairly large school located in Santa Cruz, California that handed out 0 masters’s documentary production degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national 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.

Read full report on Documentary Production at University of California - Santa Cruz

• Most Focused Master’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.