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Best Schools for Documentary Production in California
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the documentary production degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Documentary Production
No school ranked higher than New York Film Academy this year for documentary production. Located in the city of Burbank, New York Film Academy is a small private for-profit university. About 68% of students finish within six years. New York Film Academy awarded about 14 documentary production degrees in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, documentary production degree recipients from New York Film Academy generally make around $16,793. Typical student debt for the program is $20,250.
More information about a degree in documentary production from New York Film Academy
Notes and References
This list is compiled by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 3 schools evaluated.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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