Conclusion: The Quest for Film School Transparency
The raw data and deeply personal stories shared by these 100+ graduates make one thing undeniably clear: the traditional film school narrative is missing a massive amount of real-world context.
If you are a film program graduate (Certificate, Associate, Bachelors, or Graduate) and haven't shared your experience yet, please take it now.
This article and the data will be updated once we receive 400 responses. Help us reach that milestone by sharing this article with your film school peers, cohort groups, and alumni networks.
We'll do a breakdown of results per program for Supporting Members once we receive somewhere between 30 to 50 for a program.
Here are the current totals for programs represented in the survey:
I hope everyone has found the data here helpful. If you have questions or comments please leave them below.
Detailed survey results broken down by graduation year are available right now in our exclusive deep-dive artilcle for Supporting Members.
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If you are a film program graduate (Certificate, Associate, Bachelors, or Graduate) and haven't shared your experience yet, please take it now.
This article and the data will be updated once we receive 400 responses. Help us reach that milestone by sharing this article with your film school peers, cohort groups, and alumni networks.
We'll do a breakdown of results per program for Supporting Members once we receive somewhere between 30 to 50 for a program.
Here are the current totals for programs represented in the survey:
Undergraduate Film Programs
| USC School of Cinematic Arts | 4 |
| Emerson College | 4 |
| NYU Tisch | 3 |
| Boston University | 3 |
| SUNY Purchase College | 2 |
| SCAD | 2 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 2 |
| Wesleyan University | 1 |
| Webster University | 1 |
| University of Utah | 1 |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas | 1 |
| University of Hartford | 1 |
| University at Buffalo | 1 |
| UNCSA | 1 |
| UCLA | 1 |
| UArts | 1 |
| Towson University | 1 |
| Texas Christian University | 1 |
| Temple University | 1 |
| Southern Oregon University | 1 |
| Southern Illinois University: Carbondale | 1 |
| SFSU | 1 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Regent's University London | 1 |
| Point park | 1 |
| Penn state | 1 |
| NYFA | 1 |
| Montana State University | 1 |
| Mizzou | 1 |
| Leeds Beckett | 1 |
| Kansas City Art Institute | 1 |
| Grand Valley State University | 1 |
| George Mason University | 1 |
| Full Sail | 1 |
| CSU, Northridge | 1 |
| CSU, Monterey Bay | 1 |
| Columbia University | 1 |
| Columbia College Chicago | 1 |
| Boise State University | 1 |
| Beijing Film Academy | 1 |
| Art Institute of CA | 1 |
| Grand Total | 54 |
Graduate Film Programs
| USC School of Cinematic Arts | 9 |
| AFI Conservatory | 5 |
| UCLA TFT | 4 |
| NYU TIsch | 4 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 4 |
| Columbia University School of the Arts | 3 |
| Chapman University | 3 |
| UT Austin | 2 |
| University of Georgia | 2 |
| University of performing art Bratislava | 1 |
| UCLA extension | 1 |
| UCF | 1 |
| The University of New Orleans | 1 |
| Raindance / Staffordshire | 1 |
| Howard University | 1 |
| FSU College of Motion Picture Arts | 1 |
| Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema | 1 |
| DePaul University | 1 |
| Columbia University | 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon MFA | 1 |
| American University | 1 |
| Grand Total | 48 |
I hope everyone has found the data here helpful. If you have questions or comments please leave them below.
Detailed survey results broken down by graduation year are available right now in our exclusive deep-dive artilcle for Supporting Members.
Film School Alumni Employment Statistics: How Alumni Career Outcomes Have Shifted Over Time
Exclusively for Supporting Members, In this article we break down employment data from our survey by graduation year to see how responses are different over time. With the industry in flux it is important for film applicants to see how recent graduates are doing after film school.
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