Photography at New York University

If you plan to study photography, take a look at what New York University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NYU is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 52,775.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Photography section at the bottom of this page.

NYU Photography Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Photography

NYU Photography Rankings

The photography major at NYU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Photography. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Photography Student Demographics at NYU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the photography majors at New York University.

NYU Photography Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of photography bachelor's degrees went to men and 63% went to women. The typical photography bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at NYU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its photography bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from New York University with a bachelor's in photography.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	9
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Film & Video Production

Careers That Photography Grads May Go Into

A degree in photography can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for New York University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	11,530	$99,870
Photographers	4,090	$53,150

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Cincin12 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.