Acting is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #323 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of acting. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 degrees in acting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of acting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Acting School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Acting Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of acting degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Boston University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in acting. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #54 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were about 23 acting students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Emerson College if you want to pursue a degree in acting. Emerson is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston. This college ranks 17th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 9 acting students who graduated with this degree at Emerson in the most recent year we have data available.
Salem State University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in acting. Salem State is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Salem. This university ranks 37th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 10 acting students who graduated with this degree at Salem State in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of acting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Acting School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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