2024 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in New Hampshire
3Colleges in New Hampshire
49Theater Degrees Awarded
$20,733Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in drama & theater arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #59 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New Hampshire to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of drama & theater arts. Combined, these schools handed out 49 degrees in drama & theater arts to qualified students.
The theater program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts rankings. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in New Hampshire list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts in New Hampshire
The schools below may not offer all types of theater degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Dartmouth College if you want to pursue a degree in drama & theater arts. Dartmouth is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the remote town of Hanover. A Best Colleges rank of #25 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Dartmouth is a great college overall.
There were approximately 8 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Dartmouth in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Keene State College if you want to pursue a degree in drama & theater arts. Located in the town of Keene, Keene State is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 5th out of 17 schools for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were approximately 11 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Keene State in the most recent year we have data available.
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. Located in the suburb of Durham, UNH is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 17 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were about 18 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at UNH in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the theater program report average early career earnings of $20,733.
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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