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Film Schools in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA (population: 817,411) has four film schools within its city limits. San Francisco Art Institute, the highest ranked school in the city with a film program, has a total student population of 571. It is the 519th highest ranked school in the USA and the 33rd highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about film programs in San Francisco, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of film professors at San Francisco Art Institute such as Brook Hinton, George Kuchar, Tony Labat, and Jeanne Liotta.

Film students from San Francisco schools who go on to become filmmakers, producers, directors, film directors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 79,780 people working as producers and directors alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $86,870. Also, Actors make on average $0 per year and there are about 39,880 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed actors earning an average salary of $*. Producers and directors in this area earn $96,860/yr and there are 1,460 employed.

San Francisco lies in San Francisco county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area has 982,930 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $30/hr average worker wage, and a $61,940 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in San Francisco are held by producers and directors, and **/1000 are held by actors.

Of the 4 film schools in San Francisco, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, San Francisco Art Institute comes out as the most expensive ($31,527/yr) for film students, with City College of San Francisco as the lowest, reported at only $4,129/yr.

Film Programs in San Francisco

• Cinematography and Film/Video Production
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Bachelors, Masters

• Film/Cinema Studies
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Cinematography and Film/Video Production
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates
• Film/Cinema Studies
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

• Cinematography and Film/Video Production
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors, Masters

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