Arts & design

Film/Video and Photographic Arts

SUNY at Purchase College · Purchase, NY

Medium evidenceMatched peers10 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$18,863Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

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

Selected degree estimate$33,993
Same subject · national$31,672
Arts & design · national$36,678

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 10 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $30,181–$37,146.

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.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Massachusetts College of Art and DesignFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$33,993
DePaul UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$37,208
Sacred Heart UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$29,685
Ohio University-Main CampusFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$29,685
Montana State UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$44,572
Temple UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$26,353
Chapman UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$36,959
American UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$38,906
Columbia College ChicagoFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$33,993
Loyola Marymount UniversityFilm/Video and Photographic Arts$31,670
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.

This group uses wider similarity limits because the tight group is too small. 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 ↗