<p>Top ten, per HR, published yesterday: USC, NYU, UCLA, AFI, CalArts, Columbia, Chapman, LMU, Emerson, UT Austin. </p>
<p>Read more:
<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-25-film-schools-united-721649">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-25-film-schools-united-721649</a></p>
<p>This is worth a look, too.
5 up-and-comers: film programs to watch (that didn’t make the top 25), per Hollywood Reporter:</p>
<p><a href=“http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/404108”>http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/404108</a></p>
<p>Interesting that Colorado Film School is yet again on the list. Tuition: $3,800 in-state; $5,400 residents of Western states; $15,000 nonresident. That was $3800, not $38,000. This is one that I’ve been recommending looking into; 64% of its graduates are working in the movie industry.</p>
<p>I thought the sub-headline of the article is intriguing: “Heavyweights like USC and NYU hold strong, but the other contenders are closer than you think.” If you’re USC or NYU was that a warning shot? I was hoping for some elaboration on that sentence but none is provided. What I do notice is that as you move down the list some schools are listed for specific reasons, so a key is finding the schools that excel at specifically what you want to get out of a film school.</p>
<p>I think there are more schools teaching film and more schools getting good at it. One can make good arguments for some schools that didn’t make the cut.</p>
<p>I was surprised to see AFI fall behind so much. Emerson also went down a place, despite opening its LA campus.</p>
<p>Up until 2012 HR rankings were international, but now they have a separate list for schools abroad:</p>
<p><a href=“Study Abroad: The Top 15 International Film Schools – The Hollywood Reporter”>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/study-top-15-international-film-721648</a></p>
<p>Isn’t Columbia’s program a film studies program?</p>
<p>Oops, read the article. It was Columbia’s MFA.</p>