<p>The latest 2014 Hollywood Reporter list of the Top 25 Film Schools in the US:
<a href=“Best Film Schools 2014: Top 25 U.S. Schools”>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-25-film-schools-united-721649</a></p>
Wright State University
Motion Pictures program
http://www.wright.edu/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures/programs/motion-pictures
University of Iowa - Cinematic Arts
http://clas.uiowa.edu/ccl/
It seems Full Sail’s reputation has improved. Here is a recent article from the New York Times that speaks pretty highly of the program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/film-school-for-profit-or-not.html?_r=0
@Violet4 - I am posting this under its own thread because I think it makes some important points.
As a film professor for the past 5 years, let me say this. You want to go to a school in which its professors are/were professionals in their craft. I don’t care what the school is or even if their credits were mediocre at best, you want to go to a school where all/most of its faculty made a living solely doing what they’re teaching. Too many schools, mine included, are full of academics who have no real world experience (NOTE: exceptions to this is that if you’re planning to get a PhD in film and want to become an academic but I don’t recommend that to anyone because this is an adjunct nation.)
I say this because my department is full of tenured professors who haven’t done anything remotely creative in years. Or they’re full of part-time professors (me) who struggle to make a living.
Don’t go to a school that has that one quasi-celebrity stopping by for a two-hour guest lecture. Credits means a movie you’ve heard of or know the people in it, not some indie film without distribution. Again, it doesn’t have to be amazing credits either.
I hate to sound so negative here, but as someone who has lived and breathed film school since his early 20’s, I’ve seen so many people not getting what they pay for. For example, my program does not require its students to write a full-length screenplay, make a tv show, or direct a short film. I wanted to make our program more challenging but it’s fallen on deaf ears. I now feel my job, for better or worse, is to simply shuffle these kids through our system and I feel horrible about it, but I have 5 other classes to teach in addition to the ones I teach at the film school.
Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC has a new film degree. They are part of SUNY so the tuition is less than $3,000 a semester for instate students. They are opening a new campus in Brooklyn, too.
https://www.fitnyc.edu/film-and-media/