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Most Popular Schools for Documentary Production Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to produce nonfiction film and video. Includes instruction in film and video writing, directing, and production; film studies; history of the documentary; research techniques; videography; editing; and business aspects of film production.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 New York Film Academy 20 2% $32,438
2 George Washington University 14 0% $71,930
3 Northwestern University 12 0% $74,649
4 Ithaca College 11 1% $62,757
5 The New School 11 0% $71,361
6 Wake Forest University 9 0% $71,638
7 University of California-Santa Cruz 7 0% $36,217
8 Chapman University 4 0% $73,182
9 Syracuse University 3 0% $70,636
10 Webster University 1 0% $45,762
11 Mount Saint Mary's University 1 0% $61,287
12 Santa Fe Community College 1 0% $2,949

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Documentary Production program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.