2024 Best Documentary Production Schools in California
2Colleges in California
21Documentary Production Degrees Awarded
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in documentary production. It is ranked #1106 out of 1506 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Documentary Production Schools in California ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 21 degrees in documentary production to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Documentary Production Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Documentary Production in California
The schools below may not offer all types of documentary production degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
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).