NYU Tisch's Film & Television Program was named the #1 Film School of 2026 by TheWrap
On October 29th, TheWrap published the article "The 50 Top Film Schools of 2026" ranking the Film & Television Program at Tisch School of the Arts as the #1 film school amongst other fellow US based film programs:
"For the third year in a row, the East Coast’s premium program for aspiring filmmakers topped the rankings. NYU is among the largest, with 1,400 undergraduates, and the most selective, with a 15% admittance rate. The students who enroll really like it (a stellar 97% retention rate) and move through successfully (an excellent 89% graduation rate). The core of its success is hands-on production experience in the context of a broad liberal-arts education, a working-professional faculty willing to mentor students and NYC as both a location and a center of filmmaking. This year, the Undergraduate Film & Television program brought in Oscar-nominated producer Peter Saraf (“Little Miss Sunshine”) as its new chair. NYU has been at the forefront of curricula on AI and virtual production. It was the first school to offer a graduate degree in Virtual Production, it has opened a cutting-edge 45K-square-foot virtual production center named for alumnus Martin Scorsese (but funded with a donation from USC alum George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson) and it has added a Hypercinema Lab in conjunction with the Interactive Media Arts program. "