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2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
133 Degrees Awarded
$24,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master's in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 8,429 people earned their degree in film and video production, making the major the 113th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,801 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 133 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in film and video production. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality film and video production programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the film and video production program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree cinematography students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Winston-Salem, North Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina School of the Arts. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. UNCSA is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s cinematography degrees to qualified students.

UNCSA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina School of the Arts are $26,064, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Film & Video Production at University of North Carolina School of the Arts

#2

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Tallahassee, Florida, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified masters’s cinematography students in 2019-2020.

Florida State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Florida State University are $26,707.

Full Florida State Film & Video Production Report

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Central Arkansas is a fairly large school located in Conway, Arkansas that handed out 5 masters’s cinematography degrees in 2019-2020.

UCA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UCA are $11,648.

Read more about Film & Video Production at UCA

#4

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lipscomb University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s cinematography students in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Lipscomb University are $18,000, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Lipscomb University Film & Video Production Report

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #5 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 75 masters’s cinematography degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree cinematography students with aid list, SCAD has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Film & Video Production Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Savannah College of Art and Design are $38,975.

Read more about Film & Video Production at SCAD

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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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