2024 Best Acting Schools in the Plains States Region
5Colleges in the Plains States Region
47Acting Degrees Awarded
A degree in acting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #323 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Plains States Region 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 47 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. For our Best Overall Acting School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Acting Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Acting in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the acting degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in acting needs to check out Webster University. Webster is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #219 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Webster is a great university overall.
There were about 8 acting students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent year we have data available.
Drake University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in acting. Drake is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Des Moines. A Best Colleges rank of #224 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Drake is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 acting students who graduated with this degree at Drake in the most recent data year.
Lindenwood University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in acting. Located in the small city of Saint Charles, Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 15th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 5 acting students who graduated with this degree at Lindenwood University in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in acting needs to check out Nebraska Wesleyan University. NWU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Lincoln. This university ranks 8th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were about 8 acting students who graduated with this degree at NWU in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Northern Iowa is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in acting. UNI is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Cedar Falls. A Best Colleges rank of #199 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNI is a great university overall.
There were approximately 9 acting students who graduated with this degree at UNI in the most recent data year.
Missouri Southern is a small public university located in the city of Joplin. This university ranks 30th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 1 acting students who graduated with this degree at Missouri Southern in the most recent data year.
Stephens is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the midsize city of Columbia. This college ranks 20th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 4 acting students who graduated with this degree at Stephens in the most recent data year.
Located in the medium-sized suburb of Moorhead, MSU Moorhead is a public university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #594 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MSU Moorhead is a great university overall.
There were approximately 1 acting students who graduated with this degree at MSU Moorhead in the most recent data year.
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. For our Best Overall Acting School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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