2024 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in New Mexico
3Colleges in New Mexico
165Film Degrees Awarded
$21,737Avg Early-Career Salary
Film, Video & Photographic Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #62 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for film, video & photographic arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 165 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for film, video & photographic arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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 New Mexico 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 New Mexico
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the film degree levels they offer.
University of New Mexico - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in film, video & photographic arts. UNM is a very large public university located in the large city of Albuquerque. A Best Colleges rank of #514 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNM is a great university overall.
There were about 52 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at UNM in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the film program earn around $22,860 in the first couple years of working.
Central New Mexico Community College is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 2nd out of 23 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 51 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in film, video & photographic arts needs to check out New Mexico State University - Main Campus. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces. This university ranks 5th out of 23 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were roughly 26 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the film program state that they receive average early career income of $20,613.
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).