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2023 Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$26,035 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$21,550 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts School for You

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is the #106 most popular major in the country with 1,704 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for film students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges.

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Film, Video & Photographic Arts

$18,165 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Wichita State University the best value school in the Plains States Region for film, video and photographic arts students. Located in the large city of Wichita, WSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $18,165 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS
$28,034 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Kansas helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best film, video and photographic arts schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the small city of Lawrence, KU is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at KU are $28,034 a year.

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#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

The excellent programs at University of Iowa helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best film, video and photographic arts schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Iowa are $31,905 a year.

Iowa also claimed a spot on our Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best film, video and photographic arts schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 0
Iowa 5
Kansas 5

More Film, Video & Photographic Arts Rankings in the Plains States Region

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Music 7,675
Fine & Studio Arts 3,224
Design & Applied Arts 1,979
Drama & Theater Arts 1,699
Arts & Media Management 1,184

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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