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2022 Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
130 Degrees Awarded
$26,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 Maryland, there were 130 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,850 and $25,076 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 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 in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Maryland (With Aid)

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid list. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified ’s film students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMCP, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Maryland” ranking. It costs about $19,045 for Maryland Film students with aid per year to attend UMCP.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

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

#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid list. Johns Hopkins University is a large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 11 ’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Maryland” list. The yearly cost to attend Johns Hopkins University is $29,342 for Maryland Film students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Johns Hopkins

#3

McDaniel College

Westminster, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend McDaniel College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid. Located in Westminster, Maryland, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified ’s film students in 2019-2020.

McDaniel did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Maryland” list. The yearly cost to attend McDaniel College is $18,182 for Maryland Film students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full McDaniel College Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#4

Stevenson University

Stevenson, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevenson University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid list. Stevenson is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Stevenson, Maryland. It awarded 28 ’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Stevenson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Maryland” list. The estimated yearly cost for Stevenson is $27,142 for Maryland Film students with aid.

Full Stevenson Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maryland Institute College of Art. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Film Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid. Maryland Institute College of Art is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 44 ’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MICA, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Maryland” ranking. It costs about $38,921 for Maryland Film students with aid per year to attend Maryland Institute College of Art.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at MICA

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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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