BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS - FILMMAKING

The Rutgers Filmmaking Center offers a bachelor of fine arts (BFA) degree in filmmaking, an innovative program with individualized training in fiction and documentary film production taught by industry professionals. The interdisciplinary model is designed to establish marketable skills in the emerging field of digital communication blended with a wide array of liberal arts electives.

Students become technically astute filmmakers who are also intellectually informed artists. They are trained in all aspects of their craft in both fiction and documentary production by working with professional filmmakers with a track record of producing award-winning feature and short documentaries that reach broad audiences.

Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, comprises a vibrant community of nearly 1,200 makers—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theatre artists, visual artists, and designers unafraid to get their hands dirty as they collaborate with our renowned faculty of professional working artists.

Mason Gross graduates emerge not merely with a degree but, ideally, with a commitment to making innovative and purposeful contributions to the wider community—onstage, backstage, in a gallery, a classroom, a studio, and beyond.

The goal: to cultivate thinking, thoughtful makers embracing art as an ever-changing field of possibility.

Just 45 minutes from the crackling energy of New York City’s arts scene, the school serves as the flagship public arts conservatory at Rutgers, a Big Ten research university serving more than 71,000 students. Rutgers is the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning and a prestigious Association of American Universities.