2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Dance Education in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 293 people earned their degree in drama and dance education, making the major the 713th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 3 drama and dance education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 drama and dance education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in drama and dance education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their drama and dance education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree drama education students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Dance Education in the Far Western US Region

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Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California

Top 10% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola Marymount University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region list. Loyola Marymount University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Loyola Marymount Drama & Dance Education Report

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Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Ellensburg, Washington, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s drama education students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Drama & Dance Education at Central Washington University

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Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Drama Education Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Oregon University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Monmouth, Oregon, and it awarded 0 masters’s drama education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Drama & Dance Education at Western Oregon University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Dance Education

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.