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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production (Income $0-$30k) in New York

6 Ranked Colleges
206 Degrees Awarded
$42,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master's in New York For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Film & Video Production is the 113th most popular major in the country with 8,429 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across New York, there were 1,205 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 206 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,029 and $47,933 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in film and video production. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent film and video production programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the film and video production program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production (Income $0-$30k) in New York

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 62 degrees to qualified masters’s cinematography students in 2019-2020.

Columbia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia University in the City of New York are $51,194, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Syracuse University landed the #2 spot on the list. Syracuse is located in Syracuse, New York and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 masters’s cinematography degrees to qualified students.

Syracuse did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Syracuse are $41,714, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

Purchase College

Purchase, New York
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Purchase College landed the #3 spot on the list. Purchase, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s cinematography degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new york master’s degree cinematography students whose families make $0-$30k list, Purchase College has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purchase College are $24,983.

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#4

New York University

New York, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 101 degrees to qualified masters’s cinematography students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new york master’s degree cinematography students whose families make $0-$30k list, NYU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New York University are $36,892, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rochester Institute of Technology. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s cinematography degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at RIT, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at RIT are $50,442, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Film & Video Production at Rochester Institute of Technology

#6

School of Visual Arts

New York, New York
#4 in overall quality

School of Visual Arts ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $0-$30k list. SVA is a private for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SVA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SVA are $48,600, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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