Accredited Filmmaking degree?

[sanantone]

What do you mean by state accreditation? For institutional accreditation (accreditation for the whole school), there is regional and national accreditation. Regional accreditation is usually more highly regarded and the credits are much easier to transfer. Some licensing bodies for certain organizations might even require regionally accredited degrees. Then, there is programmatic accreditation, which is for different areas of study. Programmatic accreditation for business programs, for example, says that the program goes above and beyond the minimum requirements for institutional accreditation. States do not accredit schools, but they do license them or approve them for operations within a state. State approval is actually the lowest credential a school needs to operate legally; the school would still be considered unaccredited without regional or national accreditation and most employers and licensing agencies would not accept its degrees. Any school with regional or national accreditation will have state licensing or approval if it wants to operate brick and mortar campuses legally within that state.

ASU is a state school, which means it is publicly funded by taxpayer dollars within Arizona. TESC and COSC are also state schools in New Jersey and Connecticut, respectively. Excelsior is a private, non-profit school like Harvard and MIT (they do not depend on tax money aside from financial aid which is for the student, not the school), but it has regional accreditation along with the others including Academy of Art University. I don't know how well-regarded Full Sail is. It is nationally accredited by ACCSC, so if you don't like the school, you're going to have a hard time finding another school with a film program that will accept its credits. In my opinion, Full Sail is way overpriced for its accreditation. Two of your links are for the same school and the same program, which is the one I posted above. I meant to say motion picture and television instead of film and television.

ASU is the best choice because it's the cheapest of the film programs. Even though Academy of Art University is more expensive than Full Sail, it's the next best choice since it's regionally accredited. SNHU? Well, that depends on whether you really want to study screenwriting. The school is regionally accredited and the cheapest out of all of the choices.