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

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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 Texas, there were 252 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,616 and $37,785 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

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

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

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

1

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#6 overall quality in Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Film Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Waco, Texas, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s film students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#4 overall quality in Texas

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 Texas list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 27 masters’s film degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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

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