2025 Best Film & Video Production Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
457Cinematography Degrees Awarded
Ranked #117 in popularity, film & video production is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for film & video production students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 457 degrees in film & video production to qualified students.
Your choice of film & video production 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 production schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Film & Video Production Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Film & Video Production in Massachusetts
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the cinematography degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Emerson College if you wish to pursue a degree in film & video production. Emerson is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston.
There were roughly 359 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Emerson in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Massachusetts College of Art and Design if you wish to pursue a degree in film & video production. Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a small public college located in the city of Boston.
There were roughly 38 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in film & video production has to check out Fitchburg State University. Located in the suburb of Fitchburg, Fitchburg State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
There were roughly 60 film & video production students who graduated with this degree at Fitchburg State in the most recent year we have data available.
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).