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Compare notable film schools side by side on objective facts — whether each is public or private, the country it's in, the degree levels it offers (BA/BFA/MFA/PhD), whether it offers graduate training, and when it was founded — grouped by whether the school offers graduate (MFA/PhD) training. An independent directory, informational only: this is not a ranking.

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Offers graduate (MFA/PhD) training

School	Control	Degrees	Country	Founded
Academy of Art University — School of Motion Pictures & Television	Private	BFA, MFA	United States	1929
AFI Conservatory	Private	MFA	United States	1969
Beijing Film Academy	Public	BA, MA	International	1950
Boston University — Film & Television	Private	BS, MFA	United States	1839
CalArts School of Film/Video	Private	BFA, MFA	United States	1961
Columbia College Chicago — Cinema and Television Arts	Private	BA, BFA, MFA	United States	1890
Columbia University School of the Arts — Film	Private	MFA, MA	United States	1965
DePaul University — School of Cinematic Arts	Private	BFA, BA, MFA, MS	United States	1898
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts	Private	BA, BFA, MFA	United States	1996
Emerson College — Visual & Media Arts	Private	BA, BFA, MA, MFA	United States	1880
FSU College of Motion Picture Arts	Public	BFA, MFA	United States	1989
Georgia State University — Creative Media Industries / Film	Public	BA, BS, MFA	United States	1913
LMU School of Film and Television	Private	BA, MFA	United States	1964
London Film School	Private	MA	International	1956
National Film and Television School	Private	MA, Diploma	International	1971
New York Film Academy	Private	BFA, MFA, Conservatory	United States	1992
Newhouse School — Television, Radio & Film	Private	BS, MA, MS	United States	1934
Northwestern — Radio/Television/Film	Private	BA, BS, MFA, PhD	United States	1851
NYU Tisch School of the Arts — Film & TV	Private	BFA, MFA	United States	1965
Ohio University — School of Film	Public	BFA, MFA	United States	1804
SCAD — Film and Television	Private	BFA, MA, MFA	United States	1978
School of Visual Arts — Film	Private	BFA, MFA	United States	1947
SIU — Cinema and Photography	Public	BA, MFA	United States	1869
Stanford MFA in Documentary Film and Video	Private	MFA	United States	1968
Temple University — Film and Media Arts	Public	BA, MFA	United States	1884
UCF School of Visual Arts and Design — Film	Public	BFA, MFA	United States	1963
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television	Public	BA, MFA, PhD	United States	1947
University of Colorado Boulder — Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts	Public	BA, BFA, MFA	United States	1876
University of Miami — Cinematic Arts	Private	BFA, BSC, MFA	United States	1925
University of North Texas — Media Arts	Public	BA, MFA	United States	1890
University of Washington — Cinema & Media Studies / DXARTS	Public	BA, MFA, PhD	United States	1861
USC School of Cinematic Arts	Private	BA, BFA, MFA, PhD	United States	1929
UT Austin — Radio-Television-Film	Public	BS, MFA, PhD	United States	1883
York University — Cinema & Media Arts	Public	BFA, MFA	International	1959

Undergraduate / certificate focus

School	Control	Degrees	Country	Founded
BYU — Media Arts (Theatre & Media Arts)	Private	BA	United States	1875
Carnegie Mellon — Film and Media (IDeATe / Drama)	Private	BFA, BXA	United States	1900
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia	Public	Diploma	International	1935
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg	Public	Diploma	International	1991
La Fémis	Public	Diploma, Master	International	1986
Rice University — Visual and Dramatic Arts (Film)	Private	BA	United States	1912
Ringling College — Film & Computer Animation	Private	BFA	United States	1931
Roy H. Park School of Communications — Cinema & Photography	Private	BS, BFA	United States	1931
SUNY Purchase — Conservatory of Theatre Arts / Film	Public	BFA, BA	United States	1967
UNC School of the Arts — School of Filmmaking	Public	BFA	United States	1993
University of Arizona — Film & Television	Public	BA, BFA	United States	1885
University of Michigan — Film, Television, and Media	Public	BA	United States	1817
University of Minnesota — Cinema & Media Culture	Public	BA	United States	1851
University of Oregon — Cinema Studies	Public	BA	United States	1876
VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography)	Public	Diploma, Specialist	International	1919
Wesleyan University — Film Studies	Private	BA	United States	1831
Yale University — Film and Media Studies	Private	BA	United States	1701

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