2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 16,778 people earned their degree in film, video and photographic arts, making the major the 62nd most popular in the United States. 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,036 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,676 and $29,396 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in film, video and photographic arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their film, video and photographic arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree film students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in the Southwest Region

1

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#17 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #1 spot on the list. Baylor is a large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 2 masters’s film degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Baylor Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s film degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

• 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.