<p>I am a film student choosing between NU (communication) and NYU (tisch film).
Things that make me nervous about NYU:
Academically, not as strong as NU. Although film program is strong, what about general liberal arts?
Lack of a community feel. This is not a location or campus question, rather, that that tisch film is so competitive.
Size of program. 240 freshmen, and 330 after transfers sophmore year. Why so large? </p>
<p>For Northwestern, I really like the campus feel and smaller program (only 40-50 film kids a year). However, I hate the frat scene/conservative element and not as great film production facilities. I'm also nervous about moving into the professional world from evanston, into nyc or la. Somebody please help.</p>
<p>NYC def wins the "location, location, location" catagory.
and the classes wont be 240 people to each class, so this way you get to meet more people interested in what you are, instead of the same 40 people over and over, where they are less likely to break you up.</p>
<p>NYU probably has the 2nd best film program in the country, so, if prestige of degree and intensity of traning is important to you, which it should be in the show biz field, I'd say NYU hands down.</p>
<p>Well that second best thing only comes from USC kids...haha. I got in there as well, but I am not up for living in l.a. right now. I perfer to have my soul sucked out of me when I am older...haha.</p>
<p>Well if you actually want to do film film, then Tisch film makes sense. </p>
<p>Film students take one to two non-film classes a semester - you can pretty much pick anything from what I understand.</p>
<p>And you do know that NYU has a communication department though right? It's in Steinhardt.</p>
<p>I did film at Northwestern a few summers ago taught by some folks from USC, NYU, and The American Film Institute (AFI). I'm going to NYU if that's any indication.</p>
<p>The problem with the film department at NU is that it is part of the communications school. This is bad. It means the journalism departments decide where the funding goes, and naturally they go to the journalism departments and not the film program. The film program at NU is nice, but very underfunded. There were four dollies and only one of them drove straight. Their editing studio is quite small too and a bit out of date.</p>
<p>NYU doesn't have these problems. Since it is one of the bigger departments at Tisch, we don't have to worry about other departments squandering our funds. And perhaps I'm just out of the loop (it's happened before) but I haven't found anyone to be outragously competitive. The only competitive part is getting in.</p>
<p>You wont miss the campus either. No time and its just a distraction. You'll be glad you went to NYU, believe me.</p>
<p>Well actually, journalism is separate from communication (school of Medill), however I'll keep that in mind when I visit. </p>
<p>I went to NYU's summer program, and the film school is actually quiet competitive (only 40 out of 80 kids in advanced production make a final short). And basically, the whole thing is dependent on the first run festival (in terms of snagging an agent/manager)</p>