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2022 Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
51 Degrees Awarded
$34,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Film Schools for a Master's in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 District of Columbia, there were 112 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,350 and $43,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 51 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,525 and $61,455 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in District of Columbia (With Aid)

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s film degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our district of columbia master’s degree film students with aid list, Howard has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Howard are $34,224, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

American University

Washington, District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #2 spot on the list. The American University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 41 masters’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

The American University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at The American University are $35,524, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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