Top 25 Film Schools

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Some people go to film school to learn the latest about 360-degree fly cams and head-mounted display systems. Others go to study the esoterics of film history and theory (usually at No. 10 Wesleyan). And many just want to figure out how to point a camera and make the movies that keep playing out in their heads.
These days, there's a school for everybody, though not all are created equal, so here's THR's annual Top 25 Film Schools list to sort out the differences. The magazine consulted with educators, alumni and industry pros to rank the best of the best. Somewhere on these pages is a school to match every ambition, even if that ambition is to just make friends in a TV writers room (see No. 11, University of Texas).

 

#20 Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida

Moonlight's big Oscar win pushed this small Tallahassee-based program up some spaces on this year's list. Alumnus Barry Jenkins ('03) staffed the production with fellow students he met during grad school. "People ask why we are so close," says Moonlight co-editor Joi McMillon (the first African-American female ever to be nominated in the editing category). "We are such a small school, so there is accountability that is placed on you from the very first project that you do." While FSU emphasizes the basics of storytelling, the school has been adding courses on more forward-looking mediums, such as VR (with new cameras, lab and postproduction facilities, and the hiring of VFX veteran Tom Mikota). All of this comes as a new dean, Reb Braddock, takes over for Frank Patterson, who left last year to run Pinewood Studios in Atlanta.
Tuition Undergrad: $7,545 (in state), $25,239 (out of state); grad: $21,569 (production, in state), $49,982 (production, out of state), $14,859 (writing, in state), $34,432 (writing, out of state)
Notable alumni The Maze Runner director Wes Ball, Alan Ball, It Follows director David Robert Mitchell