Arts & design

Film/Video and Photographic Arts

Fitchburg State University · Fitchburg, MA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$17,126Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$27,000Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's
Annual credentials awarded57Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$24,672
Same subject · national$25,194
Arts & design · national$27,590

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $22,746–$25,617.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Keene State CollegeFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$23,034
Central Washington UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$28,960
Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$21,881
Eastern Washington UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$23,807
Saint Cloud State UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$25,194
University of ToledoFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$20,140
State University of New York at OswegoFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$24,730
Cleveland State UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$24,615
Eastern Michigan UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$29,413
The University of MontanaFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$20,637
SUNY at Purchase CollegeFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$25,372
Northern Michigan UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$26,353
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗