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2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

5 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$25,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor's in Texas

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 Bachelor’s in Texas” 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 Texas, there were 156 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in film and video production. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great film and video production programs and cost less that 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 Bachelor’s in Texas

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree cinematography students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production in Texas

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Dallas. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas. The Art Institute of Dallas is a small school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s cinematography degrees in 2019-2020.

The Art Institute of Dallas did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Film & Video Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend The Art Institute of Dallas is $21,605 for texas bachelor’s degree cinematography students.

Read full report on Film & Video Production at The Art Institute of Dallas

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Houston. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s cinematography students in 2019-2020.

Ai Houston also took the #3 spot in our “Best Film & Video Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. It costs about $22,844 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Cinematography students per year to attend The Art Institute of Houston.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of San Antonio. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s cinematography degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Ai San Antonio not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Film & Video Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The estimated yearly cost for The Art Institute of San Antonio is $22,421 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Cinematography students.

Read full report on Film & Video Production at Ai San Antonio

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The Art Institute of Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s cinematography degrees in 2019-2020.

Ai Austin also made our “Best Film & Video Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $24,156 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Cinematography students per year to attend The Art Institute of Austin.

Full The Art Institute of Austin Film & Video Production Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Cinematography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. SMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree cinematography students list, SMU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Film & Video Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Methodist University is $36,222 for texas bachelor’s degree cinematography students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Southern Methodist University Film & Video Production Report

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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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