2024 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Missouri
7Colleges in Missouri
157Film Degrees Awarded
$18,970Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in film, video & photographic arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #62 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Missouri ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 157 degrees in film, video & photographic arts to qualified students.
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. We derive our Best Overall Film, Video & Photographic Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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
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Best Schools for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Missouri
The schools below may not offer all types of film degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in film, video & photographic arts has to check out Washington University in St Louis. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 19 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Webster University if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, Webster is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #219 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Webster is a great university overall.
There were about 53 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the film program earn about $17,798 for their early career.
It is difficult to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you wish to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Mizzou is a very large public university located in the city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #124 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were roughly 16 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the film, video & photographic arts program at University of Missouri - Columbia earn $5,017 above the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
It is difficult to beat Missouri State University - Springfield if you want to pursue a degree in film, video & photographic arts. Located in the midsize city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 25 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Lindenwood University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Charles. This university ranks 15th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 5 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Lindenwood University in the most recent data year.
UMKC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Kansas City. This university ranks 12th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 7 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at UMKC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Kansas City, Kansas City Art Institute is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
There were about 17 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Kansas City Art Institute in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the film program earn an average of $15,126 in the first couple years of their career.
Located in the city of Columbia, Stephens is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 20th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 7 film, video & photographic arts students who graduated with this degree at Stephens in the most recent data year.
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).