Bachelor's · Brooklyn, New York
Is Film/Video and Photographic Arts at Pratt Institute-Main worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $26,471
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $50,348
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $207k (likely $207k – $282k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$333k (likely −$460k – −$265k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$169k (likely −$330k – −$22k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 74%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Pratt Institute-Main
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$106,619
- Architectural Sciences and Technology (Bachelor's)$84,447
- Design and Applied Arts (Master's)$82,883
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- Fine and Studio Arts (Master's)$54,345
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- Fine and Studio Arts (Bachelor's)$42,282
Film/Video and Photographic Arts at other schools in New York
- New York University$58,720
- 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
- CUNY City College$46,801
- Binghamton University$46,579