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Colleges with Quality Programs in Film Studies

Are you the next Coppola or Spielberg? Can you tell what kind of camera lens a director used without trying? Do your friends refuse to watch movies with you because you can't stop analyzing the cinematography? Then check out the schools below.

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• American Film Institute (CA)
• New York Film Academy
• Adelphi University (Garden City, NY)
• Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
• Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
• Asbury University (Wilmore, KY)
• Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
• Barry University (Miami Shores, FL)
• Baylor University (Waco, TX)
• Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
• Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)
• Boston University (Boston, MA)
• Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• Burlington College (Burlington, VT)
• CUNY — City College (New York, NY)
• CUNY — College of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY)
• California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)
• California State University — Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
• California State University — Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
• California State University — Monterey Bay (Seaside, CA)
• California State University — Northridge (Northridge, CA)
• Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI)
• Chapman University (Orange, CA)
• Clark University (Worcester, MA)
• Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY)
• Cogswell Polytechnical College (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, CAN)
• Connecticut College (New London, CT)
• Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
• DePauw University (Greencastle, IN)
• Denison University (Granville, OH)
• Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
• Eastern Washington University (Cheney, WA)
• Emerson College (Boston, MA)
• Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT)
• Five Towns College (Dix Hills, NY)
• Full Sail University (Winter Park, FL)
• Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
• Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI)
• Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)
• Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
• Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
• Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, FL)
• Keene State College (Keene, NH)
• La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA)
• Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
• Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
• Lynn University (Boca Raton, FL)
• Madonna University (Livonia, MI)
• Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT)
• Marymount Manhattan College (New York, NY)
• Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston, MA)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
• New York Institute of Technology (Old Westbury, NY)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Ohio University (Athens, OH)
• Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH)
• Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)
• Pacific University Oregon (Forest Grove, OR)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Point Park University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)
• Rhode Island College (Providence, RI)
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
• Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
• SUNY — Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
• SUNY — Fredonia (Fredonia, NY)
• SUNY — Purchase College (Purchase, NY)
• SUNY — University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
• San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)
• San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
• Santa Fe University of Art and Design (Santa Fe, NM)
• Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
• Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA)
• School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
• Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, CAN)
• Southern Illinois University — Carbondale (Carbondale, IL)
• Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)
• Stevenson University (Stevenson, MD)
• Suffolk County Community College — Ammerman Campus (Selden, NY)
• Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA)
• Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
• Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• The Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
• The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
• The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CAN)
• The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
• The University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)
• University of Alberta (Edmonton, CAN)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
• University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
• University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
• University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT)
• University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
• University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
• University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
• University of Michigan — Flint (Flint, MI)
• University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC)
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro, NC)
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Wilmington, NC)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Regina (Regina, CAN)
• University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
• Vancouver Film School (Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
• Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• York University (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)