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2023 Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Montana

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$7,510 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,331 Avg Salary

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

With 104 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, film, video and photographic arts is the #23 most popular major in Montana.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Montana ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Montana to see which ones offered the best value programs for film students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in Montana

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

Best Montana Schools for Affordable Quality in Film, Video & Photographic Arts

$7,528 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Montana State University to be the best value school for film, video and photographic arts students who want to pursue a degree in Montana. MSU Bozeman is a large public school located in the town of Bozeman.

MSU Bozeman undergraduate students pay an average of $7,528 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that film majors at MSU Bozeman take out is $25,000.

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$7,492 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The University of Montana is a great value for film, video and photographic arts students. UM is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Missoula.

UM undergraduate students pay an average of $7,492 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Film majors at UM take out an average of $23,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

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Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 184
Utah 231
Idaho 20
Wyoming 10

One of 10 majors within the area of study, film, video and photographic arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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