<p>Your question doesn’t lend itself to an easy answer. </p>
<p>1) If you meant to ask what you asked 100% literally, I would say “all of them”, for the same reason that I would say all majors at Harvard are considered prestigious and all majors at my local community college are thought of as, well, not much. We are a well-known school, especially among progressive-leaning sectors of the American populace. We are neither an art school nor an Institute of Technology; we are instead a liberal-arts school, so I would say that in general all of our majors are equally well-regarded.</p>
<p>2) Hyping the Film department is what it is. Let me say this: if you’re an outside art student (present former or future), or supporting yourself in an ‘artsy’ profession (i.e. you produce documentaries for a living), you’d be impressed by a Wesleyan film studies degree. </p>
<p>However, if you’re neither of those things and are instead just a regular (educated) person from the outside, you will not have any idea exactly what “film studies” consist of. You will consequently fail to be unduly impressed by someone possessing that qualification. In fact if you’re trying to get a “regular” job in, say, the government or corporate worlds, the fact that you majored in Film instead of, I dunno, Government or Economics or whatever is going to work against you. </p>
<p>3) In the first section [(1)] I addressed your question literally; in the second [(2)] I responded to the other posters’ unqualified, gushing adulation of the film department. Now I will give you my own personal take.</p>
<p>Don’t come here before you explore this school deeply first. Don’t commit to going to any college without THOROUGHLY vetting it beforehand. This is a general statement; it does not reflect my particular distaste for Wesleyan. </p>
<p>You will be best served by majoring in what interests you. If a department or area of study does this for you, you will be motivated to perform well in its classes, or at least you will be intellectually stimulated by the content within them. These two outcomes are both positive; the former will help you maintain a high GPA for grad school admissions/certain jobs (i.e. investment banking, which is incredibly competitive and whose hiring decisions are highly reliant on one’s undergrad GPA), while the latter outcome will ensure that you did not waste the 4 years you will spend here. Hopefully you can knock out both at once, as I am currently doing. </p>
<p>This will serve you best in the long run. </p>
<p>Therefore, asking “ZOMG HALP GUYZ WUT MAJRS IZ WEZ NOEN 4??!??!111” is completely irrelevant, because if you pick a major that we’re supposedly ‘known for’ and do crappily in it, you’re screwed. You either weren’t stimulated (in which case you just wasted $200 large) or you got crummy grades in it, or, finally and most likely, both. Say you came here and majored in film solely because niiice people on teh Intarweb told you we’re ‘known’ for our film department. Assuming you neither enjoy it nor do well, you lose.</p>
<p>Thus: come here and pick your major based on taking classes within it frosh year. Pick it based on whether you like it or not, not whether we’re ‘known’ (whatever that means) for it, and you will not only have an enjoyable academic experience, chances are you will have a high GPA, which will serve you well in both grad school admissions as well as finding employment in this bear labor market, which I can only guess was the ultimate purpose behind your asking your original question. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>