2022 Best Value Photography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Photography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,438 people earned their degree in photography, making the major the 291st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 415 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 photography graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality photography 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 photography program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Value Photography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Photography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Photography in the Southeast Region

#1

Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$38,975 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Photography Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Savannah College of Art and Design is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Savannah, Georgia. It awarded 25 masters’s photography degrees in 2019-2020.

SCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Photography Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SCAD are $38,975, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Savannah College of Art and Design Photography 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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