Bachelor's · New York, New York
Is Film/Video and Photographic Arts at New York University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $39,369
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $63,072
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $152k (likely $152k – $179k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.8 years (likely 7.8–10.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$114k (likely −$174k – −$74k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $204k (likely $80k – $317k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 88%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward art, design & performance majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP 2-D Art and Design
- AP Drawing
- AP Art History
- AP Music Theory
IB Higher Level
- Visual Arts HL
- Music HL or Theatre HL or Film HL
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Film/Video and Photographic Arts at other schools in New York
- Marymount Manhattan College$55,285
- Fordham University$54,738
- Syracuse University$54,115
- Rochester Institute of Technology$52,970
- Pace University$52,368
- College of Staten Island CUNY$51,363
- The New School$48,557
- Pratt Institute-Main$46,874
- CUNY City College$46,801
- Binghamton University$46,579