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2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

8 Ranked Colleges
174 Degrees Awarded
$28,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is the 64th most popular major in the country with 17,506 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Tennessee, there were 266 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,967 and $27,501 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 174 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 8 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.

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, video and photographic arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income Over $110k) in Tennessee

#1

Middle Tennessee State University

Murfreesboro, Tennessee
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. Middle Tennessee State University is a large school located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee that handed out 68 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Middle Tennessee State University also made our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Middle Tennessee State University is $12,464 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k.

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

#2

Freed-Hardeman University

Henderson, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Freed-Hardeman University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Henderson, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s film students in 2019-2020.

FHU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend FHU is $16,703 for tennessee bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at FHU

#3

Union University

Jackson, Tennessee
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Union University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Jackson, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s film students in 2019-2020.

Union not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $28,249 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Union University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Union

#4

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s film degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also made our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $19,432 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Vanderbilt.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 Vanderbilt University Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#5

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Lipscomb University landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $24,749 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Lipscomb University.

The low student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Lipscomb Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#6

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

Southern Adventist University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. Southern Adventist is a small school located in Collegedale, Tennessee that handed out 11 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist also took the #7 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southern Adventist is $22,661 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k.

Full Southern Adventist University Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#7

Belmont University

Nashville, Tennessee

Belmont University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k ranking. Belmont is a medium-sized school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 50 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k list, Belmont has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Belmont University is $35,548 for tennessee bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Belmont University

#8

Nossi College of Art

Madison, Tennessee
#8 in overall quality

Nossi College of Art ranked #8 on this year’s Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. Nossi College of Art is a private for-profit institution located in Madison, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Nossi College of Art also took the #8 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Nossi College of Art is $21,995 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Nossi College of Art

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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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