Top Film School Ranking

Top 14 Graduate Schools for Film by U.S. News & World Report
(Master of Fine Arts)

1. New York University
1. University of Southern California
3. University of California-Los Angeles
4. American Film Institute
5. California Institute of the Arts
6. Columbia University (NY)
7. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
7. U of Texas-Austin
9. Florida State Uni
9. Northwestern Uni (IL)
9. Temple Uni
12. Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
12. San Francisco Art Institute
12. U of California-San Diego

Source: USNWR 2001

List of film schools in the USA:

Arizona

• Zaki Gordon Institute - Independent Film Making(Yavapai College)

California

• AFI Conservatory - A division of American Film Institute
• Brooks Institute of Photography
• Chapman Uni
• California College of the Arts
• Cal State LA Studios (California State U, Los Angeles)
• Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman Uni
• Columbia College Hollywood
• California State Uni, Long Beach
• California State Uni, Northridge
• Los Angeles Film School- LAFS
• Loyola Marymount Uni School of Film and Television
• San Francisco State Uni Cinema department
• USC School of Cinematic Arts/USC School of Cinema - Television (U of Southern California)
• UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (U of California, Los Angeles)
• Video Symphony TV & Film School (Burbank, CA)

District of Columbia

• American Univ School of Communication - Film and Media Arts Studies

Florida

• School of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts at Florida State Univ
• Un of Central Florida Film School

Georgia

• Savannah College of Art and Design

Illinois

• Columbia College
• DePaul Univ- Digital Cinema Program

Massachusetts

• Fitchburg State College
• Hampshire College
• Emerson College

Montana

• Montana State Univ

New Mexico

• Moving Image Arts at the College of Santa Fe

New York

• Tisch School of the Arts at New York Univ
• Columbia Univ School of the Arts Film Division
• School of Visual Arts
• New York Film Academy Film School & Acting School
• City College of New York- City Univ of New York
• SUNY Purchase
• Vassar College Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film

South Carolina

• Film Production at Trident Technical College

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Film Schools in Canada

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