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Film & media production at RIT

RIT graduates about 114 film majors a year, 5% of its graduating class. That puts it 18th of 285 schools we score for film, a standout program at 87 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $53,000 four years out, 1.20× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $1 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

87/100Standout#18 of 285 for film →
Graduates a year1145% of the class
Median pay 4 years out$53,0001.20× the same major nationally
Research in the field$1Ma year, NSF
Admit rate71%whole school
SAT middle 50%1270–1450whole school

Around RIT

Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology EECS, Large-Scale Photonic C
PhotonicsForQuantumWorkshop2019IngleAuditoriumEnglundTalkPhoto: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Bamboo Room (03-2610) is the seat of student government at the Rochester Ins
RITBambooRoomPhoto: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend 2018 and 50th anniversary of the Henrie
BrickCityHomecoming2018SAUAtriumPhoto: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Demonstration of electric-powered snowmobile, Baja buggy, and formula race cars
ImagineRIT2017MotorsportUnveilingPhoto: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Where film happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Sands Family Studios, MAGIC Spell Studios (71).

Named buildings on the campus map: Dorm 127 · Academic 63 · Student housing 31 · Dining 30 · Athletics 10 · Chapel 4.

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Nearby in the film ranking

  1. Arizona State University 89
  2. Yale University 88
  3. Syracuse University 88
  4. Brigham Young University 87
  5. University of California, Riverside 87
  6. University of Washington 86
  7. Carnegie Mellon University 86
  8. Stanford University 85

Other strong majors at RIT

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares RIT with every school we score in film. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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