MFA Film & TV Acceptance rates

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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<p>Okie dokie, here is a list of some widely discussed colleges with programs in MFA film. Some schools post their stats on Petersons in great detail while most just group all of the sub-catagories together under ‘film’.</p>

<p>Source: petersons.com</p>

<p>The NYU numbers are incomplete and I’m just listing what petersons.com has on their site.</p>

<p>This list is meant to give students a sense of what their odds might be when applying to these programs. Lower percentages do not correlate with better programs.</p>

<p>Florida State
Average age 27. 182 applicants, 23% accepted, 30 enrolled.</p>

<p>USC (Critical Studies MA & PhD)
299 applicants, 11% accepted, 20 enrolled.</p>

<p>USC (Interactive Media MA & PhD)
44 applicants, 45% accepted, 13 enrolled.</p>

<p>USC (Media Arts PhD)
67 applicants, 4% accepted, 3 enrolled.</p>

<p>USC (Peter Stark Producing MFA)
189 applicants, 13% accepted, 25 enrolled.</p>

<p>USC (Program in Film production MFA)
312 applicants, 25% accepted.</p>

<p>USC (Animation MFA)
59 applicants, 39% accepted.</p>

<p>USC (Screenwriting MFA)
197 applicants, 18% accepted, 32 enrolled.</p>

<p>Chapman University – Dodge (All MFA majors)
Average age 27. 342 applicants, 44% accepted, 85 enrolled.</p>

<p>Loyola Marymount (Production MFA)
Average age 28. 114 applicants, 58% accepted, 27 enrolled.</p>

<p>Loyola Marymount (Screenwriting MFA)
Average age 26. 56 applicants, 57% accepted, 10 enrolled.</p>

<p>NYU – Tisch (Cinema Studies MA & PhD)
Average age 31. 233 applicants, 42% accepted, 49 enrolled.</p>

<p>NYU – Tisch (Dramatic Writing MFA)
Average age 30. 238 applicants, 15% accepted, 22 enrolled.</p>

<p>Columbia University (Film Division, all MFA majors)
Average age 29. 577 applicants, 22% accepted, 78 enrolled.</p>

<p>UCLA School of Film, TV & Digital Media (all MFA & PhD majors)
Average age 30. 1,290 applicants, 11% accepted, 97 enrolled.</p>

<p>Emerson College (all MFA majors)
Average age 25. 109 applicants, 59% accepted, 36 enrolled.</p>

<p>SAIC (all Film MFA majors)
141 applicants, 35% accepted, 21 enrolled.</p>

<p>CalArts (all Film MFA majors)
Average age 27. 246 applicants, 30% accepted, 35 enrolled.</p>

<p>SFAI (all FILM MFA majors)
Average age 29. 43 applicants, 16% accepted, 4 enrolled.</p>

<p>Cal State – Northridge (MA – Screenwriting)
Average age 37. 60 applicants, 40% accepted, 14 enrolled.</p>

<p>Art Center (Broadcast Cinema MFA)
Average age 37. 60 applicants, 40% accepted, 14 enrolled.</p>

<p>AFI (all MFA majors)
Average age 26. 629 applicants, 32% accepted, 136 enrolled.</p>

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<p>Please add this to the list:</p>

<p>NYU - Kanbar (all MFA film majors)
Average age 25. 630 applicants, 9% accepted, 37 enrolled.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the listing, Wheaty. What year do these numbers come from? </p>

<p>Here’s a link to a local PBS program that spotlights student films. You can watch the winners from last year, representing a few of the SoCal film programs listed above. I believe submissions are only open to in-state university film programs, but might be a way to check the sort of work coming out these schools for those interested. I think they are mixed (MFA, BA, etc) degree students.</p>

<p>[Participating</a> Schools 2010 | Fine Cut | Shows | KCET](<a href=“http://www.kcet.org/shows/fine_cut/web-extras/participating-schools-2010.html]Participating”>http://www.kcet.org/shows/fine_cut/web-extras/participating-schools-2010.html)</p>

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<p>Great info… thanks!</p>

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<p>Madbean,</p>

<p>The source of this is petersons.com but I don’t see any dates listed on their site. The data looks very current to me and I would guess it’s based on stats from enrollment from Fall of 2010. I say that because they list some programs that just came into being last fall like:</p>

<p>University of Southern California - Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere
52 applicants, 37% accepted, 9 enrolled.</p>

<p>2010 was the start of this program in the Roski School of Art.</p>

<p>Also Petersons refers to USC’s College of Arts and Letters as “Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences” and this name change happened this past Spring if I’m not mistaken.</p>

<p>So I can’t be 100% sure but the data looks very fresh to me.</p>

<p>Best,
Wheaty</p>