by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Film, Video & Photographic Arts is the 62nd most popular major in the country with 16,778 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, film, video and photographic arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $24,170 and had an average of $25,804 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 538 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,157 and $28,321 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 468 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in film, video and photographic arts. That schools that top this list have a program in film, video and photographic arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois. Columbia College Chicago is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 221 bachelors’s film degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 191 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s film students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Academy of Art. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. The Academy is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s film degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s film degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. University of Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s film degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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Bradley University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. Bradley is a medium-sized school located in Peoria, Illinois that handed out 1 bachelors’s film degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s film degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
With a ranking of #8, Judson University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois list. Judson is located in Elgin, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s film degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate 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.
Full Judson University Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report
Dominican University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Illinois ranking, coming in at #8. River Forest, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s film degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate 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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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