2024 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Wisconsin
4Colleges in Wisconsin
217Film Degrees Awarded
$20,759Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in film, video & photographic arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #62 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Wisconsin ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 217 degrees in film, video & photographic arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Film, Video & Photographic Arts School
Your choice of film, video & photographic arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Film, Video & Photographic Arts Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Wisconsin
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the film degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Whitewater if you wish to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. UW - Whitewater is a large public university located in the distant town of Whitewater. A Best Colleges rank of #359 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UW - Whitewater is a great university overall.
There were roughly 7 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at UW - Whitewater in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in film, video & photographic arts has to check out Marquette University. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Marquette is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #130 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Marquette is a great university overall.
There were roughly 29 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Marquette in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in film, video & photographic arts has to look into University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Located in the city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 19th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 89 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, film degree recipients generally make around $20,759 at the beginning of their careers.
Milwaukee Area Technical College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in film, video & photographic arts. MATC is a fairly large public college located in the large city of Milwaukee. This college ranks 28th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 5 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at MATC in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).