2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in South Carolina

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 South Carolina, there were 144 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,741 and $36,017 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in film, video and photographic arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in film, video and photographic arts.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in South Carolina

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University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

#2 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina. Located in Columbia, South Carolina, this large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s film students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

#14 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in South Carolina list. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s film students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.