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2022 Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k

5 Ranked Colleges
568 Degrees Awarded
$20,200 Avg Salary
Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor's in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 17,506 people earned their degree in film, video and photographic arts, making the major the 64th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, film, video and photographic arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $22,714 and had an average of $31,549 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 759 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,900 and $38,208 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 568 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,656 and $26,705 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in film, video and photographic arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality film, video and photographic arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the film, video and photographic arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income $48-$75k) in Georgia

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Emory University is $19,672 for georgia bachelor’s degree film students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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#2

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Georgia is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Georgia is $14,748 for Georgia Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k. Georgia State University is a large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 217 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. It costs about $15,145 for Georgia Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Georgia State.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Georgia State University

#4

The Art Institute of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Atlanta. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this small private for-profit school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s film students in 2019-2020.

Ai Atlanta did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. The yearly cost to attend Ai Atlanta is $24,960 for georgia bachelor’s degree film students whose families make $48-$75k.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $48-$75k list. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 266 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

SCAD also made our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $42,800 for georgia bachelor’s degree film students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend 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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